transpilers are a subset of compilers though. they span the gamut from things like coffeescript that do fairly simple syntax transformations, to full fledged la

transpilers are a subset of compilers though. they span the gamut from things like coffeescript that do fairly simple syntax transformations, to full fledged languages whose compilation target happens to be a high level language like C or javascript, but which otherwise implement most of what you would expect in a "compiler".