I've been wanting to write something in LLVM-IR for a while now and I've come to the conclusion that it's not a great experience at all... but that's okay! LLVM IR is and IR it's an intermediate representation, something for the rest of the llvm toolchain to consume and something that compilers should be emitting.

Now if you want to write some low level non-platform specific logic I think it does a lovely job considering its very high level when compared with assembly BUT the second you need platform specific logic get ready to link against a libc or shell out to inline assembly in your functions (at which point you might as well be writing assembly and linking against that.)

I originally wanted to write this shell using x86 assembly so I thought of the name: "sh" + "asm" -> "shazam"

Check out the first commit if you don't believe me.