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god… MLIR is so cool. i love this IR. it can do so much. it's like “yo dawg i heard u liked IRs so i put an IR in your IR so you can compile while you compile” and this is what makes it awesome
it's exciting enough as someone who's worked with non-meta IRs like LLVM and SPIR-V for half a decade that i'm super tempted to write a toy compiler for something silly just to have an excuse to play around with it more
there are so many problems when dealing with LLVM IR and SPIR-V and [similar IR] that eternally frustrated me in compiler work and that could probably be practically solved with MLIR dialects
it's like XML for IRs. wait no why are you suddenly losing interest I promise it's good actually please—
wait since i'm also a musician these days will there be some ambiguity of what IR means. haha. well, i'm not a guitar girl (yet?)