[tlrobinson]

> how is a transpiler different from a bytecode compiler, except that the bytecode is human readable?

The bytecode is human readable.

[monocasa]

The assembly that comes out of GCC is human readable too (the actual assembling occurs via a different program from a different project than GCC). Is GCC a transpiler?

[tlrobinson]

No, because assembly is not approximately the same level of abstraction as C.

[monocasa]

How do you define that in a way that isn't a tautology?

[tlrobinson]

"I'll know it when I see it"

I'm not going to waste any more time defining things for you. Suffice to say, Go and JavaScript are roughly the same level of abstraction.

[monocasa]

You haven't really defined anything though. Your joke is kind of to my point.

[tlrobinson]

Not sure if trolling. I think most programmers have a sense of what constitutes "roughly the same level of abstraction". Certainly there are gray areas, but such is life.