> It doesn't execute code, Because if it did, it would be an interpreter. > or produce anything that is directly executable itself. My PoV is that the CPU as

> It doesn't execute code, Because if it did, it would be an interpreter. > or produce anything that is directly executable itself. My PoV is that the CPU as a interpreter. compilers just translate. It appears to me that you are under the impression that there is something special about machine code, that compilers should generate machine code in order to be one. If that were the case I would disagree. I concur with the OP that transpiler should just be dropped, just use compiler.