[Degorath]

I really _want_ to like Swift, but the development experience was so abysmal that it turned me off the language entirely.

I have been entertaining the thought of writing an LLVM frontend for Gleam, though. (I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know if this is doable, etc.)

[jitl]

I’ve been thinking about Fil-C as a compile target for high level language implementations that want decent performance with LLVM optimizations. You get GC for “free”, source compatibility with a large fraction of existing C/C++ libraries, and lots of control over memory layout and allocation. You’d still have to build the green threads / process runtime though. Maybe go would be an easier pathway since you get their green threads and GC for free.