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by poizan42 3922 days ago
Transpilers are compilers... The term is usually used for a compiler which compiles between languages at about the same level of abstraction.
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cwp 3922 days ago
The term is usually used by people that don't know what compilers are.

Snark aside, I think this is actually the case. I bet there are a LOT of CoffeeScript/Javascript developers who have never worked in a compiled language.

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pjmlp 3922 days ago
A term that I only started seeing after the crazyness to compile to JavaScript started and a part of my major was compiler design.
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