If we're being pedantic, then it is a compiler. It's a compiler that targets another high-level language instead of a lowered representation. Transpiler is (in

If we're being pedantic, then it is a compiler. It's a compiler that targets another high-level language instead of a lowered representation. Transpiler is (in my opinion) a meaningless specialization of the word compiler. The corresponding blog post (http://blog.mgechev.com/2017/09/16/developing-simple-interpreter-transpiler-compiler-tutorial/ http://blog.mgechev.com/2017/09/16/developing-simple-interpr...) does seem to be educational.