I once worked on a source-to-source translator from C++ to C. In that era, that was the common term for that kind of software. I think that's more clear than "t

I once worked on a source-to-source translator from C++ to C. In that era, that was the common term for that kind of software. I think that's more clear than "transpiler". However, what we're talking about here is closer to TeX than cfront-to-c or even TypeScript-to-Javascript.