> the domain experts don't use it and never have Not true! You see it used in the academic literature I think as far back as the 1960s. I also use it myself (

> the domain experts don't use it and never have Not true! You see it used in the academic literature I think as far back as the 1960s. I also use it myself (PhD in languages and practising professionally ever since - take that as being an expert or not up to you) and I think most of my peers would use it and understand it as well. To me transpiling implies translation from one source language that a human would normally expect to use directly to another. That's extra information over 'compiler'.