Tilde backend got removed

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I opened github today and noticed this PR:

But there was nothing on it talking about why this happened. I remember talking to gb and reading some discussions before where it was discussed that the tilde backend was put on pause because negate was busy with work and wasn’t good enough yet. But this PR seems to just outright remove the backend? Does this mean that this plan has been canceled? If so is there any plans of using some other compiler backend?

(looking at the Cuik repo, it has been fairly quiet as well with only some maintenance going on here and there)

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Our plan is to just write out own backend instead. It means we have full control over everything.

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@gingerBill

is it at all a part of the plan to emit c (or c++) transpiled code or something?

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the plan is to emit binaries (you know with actual machine code in the correct file format for each platform to just start running)

The main reason is to not have to deal with llvm.

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