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LLVM is designed around a language-independent intermediate representation (IR) that serves as a portable, high-level assembly language that can be optimized with a variety of transformations over multiple passes.
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The name LLVM originally stood for Low Level Virtual Machine, though the project has expanded and the name is no longer officially an initialism.
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LLVM is written in C++ and is designed for compile-time, link-time, runtime, and "idle-time" optimization.
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Originally implemented for C and C++, the language-agnostic design of LLVM has since spawned a wide variety of frontends:
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languages with compilers that use LLVM (or which do not directly use LLVM but can generate compiled programs as LLVM IR) include ActionScript, Ada, C# for .NET,[6][7][8] Common Lisp, PicoLisp,
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