Interesting experiment, but I was hoping you would provide some information that I could use to intuit how "the shape" of the output is different. What compromises have to be made to write IR directly? You mention that languages usually come with stdlib and other libraries to use, that you would not have access to. Seems like you kind of breezed over what libmuffintop actually is.
I enjoyed the writing style! For me tho, this felt a bit too process oriented and not enough result oriented.
I enjoyed the writing style! For me tho, this felt a bit too process oriented and not enough result oriented.
Also point your agent at your website to try to reduce the font loading flicker. I did that on my site and it worked well https://hank.bond/microblog/2026-08-20-fout-reduction-is-a-g...