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by throwaway7645 3032 days ago
Mad respect for you Dom, but why would going from Nim -> JS be Transpiling and Nim-> C++ be compiling? Both go from a high level Lang to another high level Lang.
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I don't consider C/C++ high-level.
I would normally agree with you, but that seems subjective.
It is indeed a little subjective and changes with time. This Wikipedia article explains it fairly well I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_programming_languag...