# Side discussion on LLVM C backend

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/side-discussion-on-llvm-c-backend/19797>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** llvm\
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/side-discussion-on-llvm-c-backend/19797 "2019-01-18T20:36:46Z")\
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Aside from platforms where there is no LLVM backend, any situation in which you could use the C backend to generate C code and then compile that C code to produce a binary, you could just as easily just generate a binary directly. How does going through C help anything?

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