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Is the 'transpile' nonsense a java script community thing ?

• fulafel 9y ago
  Yes, I guess "compiler" confused too many developers who thought it implied native code.
  • abiox 9y ago
    "transpiler" is a subset of "compiler".
• shakna 9y ago
  Transcompile is very old term in computing, at least the 80s, specifically referring to compiling from one language, to another high level language. CoffeeScript simply made the shortened term more popular, but the use of a more specific term is nothing to get irritated about.
  • fulafel 9y ago
    True, but transcompiling hasn't been a very commonly used term for that so it's not an obvious term to use. For example, the early C++ compiler that targeted C was not referred to as a transcompiler. Nor was the popular f2c fortran-to-c compiler.