[doug1001]

thank you; some consolation to know it's not just me

does this seems like another instance of the annoying practice in our field of someone giving a name to a thing because they think it's new, though it's not (ie, source-to-source compilers have been around as long as source-to-bytecode compilers)--no need to re-name them

wish they would just stop it and get the hell off my lawn

[pjmlp]

Yep, like calling themselves Engineer without having the respective degree.

Thankfully in most jurisdictions it is forbidden by law to do as such.

[abiox]

an example of "transpiler" from 1989 ;)

https://books.google.com/books?id=l5I_AQAAIAAJ&q="transpiler...