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> Is it really a transpiler? Why not directly compile to CIL? The end result of running Otterkit will be an executable or a C# DLL, so compiler would still be
by KTSnowy 4y ago
> Is it really a transpiler? Why not directly compile to CIL?
The end result of running Otterkit will be an executable or a C# DLL, so compiler would still be the most accurate word to describe it. If it stopped at the translation stage it would be a transpiler.
We're compiling to C# source text so that we can take advantage of the dotnet compiler optimizations. Otterkit calls the dotnet compiler after translating to C#.
- Rochus 4y ago> advantage of the dotnet compiler optimizations That's mostly constant folding and a bit of peephole optimization; the CLI JIT or AOT compilers do most optimizations on the CIL level. > so compiler would still be the most accurate word to describe it Well, you do a source-to-source translation from Cobol to C#. The terminology is fuzzy, but usually we call it a transpiler if the output is yet another high-level programming language. But who cares.