One of the interesting things going on in LLVM land is that ORC, the JIT, gets a lot of attention - that's good news for https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm/pull/18, which probably will work better as a result - I imagine that one thing that would work quite well would be to use ORC for CTFE instead of the Nim VM - this is nice because one could run light optimization passes on functions before they are executed by the VM and reuse those optimized IR:s when generating the final compile - will have to look into that at some point. Incidentally, those semi-optimized IR snippets would make good candidates for incremental compilation as well - wonder how hard it would be to make this pluggable in the main Nim compiler.
As far as Nim itself goes, nlvm is pegged at 1.2.12.
updated c2nim used to generate llvm bindings - it regressed since the last time I used it and no longer parses several enums and typedefs used in the llvm headers - on the plus side, it no longer stops on errors
Please report these regressions ... eventually. :-)