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—‬