Plenty of compilers target relatively high-level languages. They're no less compilers for it; “transpiler” feels fairly arbitrary to me. With a bit of effort a

Plenty of compilers target relatively high-level languages. They're no less compilers for it; “transpiler” feels fairly arbitrary to me. With a bit of effort and the right add-on (https://github.com/JuliaComputing/llvm-cbe https://github.com/JuliaComputing/llvm-cbe) you can make any LLVM-based compiler produce C code!