alt Hacker NewsFWIW, the article says "Frontends are somewhat insulated from this because they can use the largely stable C API." but that's not been my/our experience. There are parts of the API that are somewhat stable, but other parts (e.g. Orc) that change wildly.
Yes, the Orc C API follows different rules from the rest of the C API (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/501416a755d1b85ca1...).