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by zanellia 1667 days ago
Anyway, the main point is to give it a name that is as informative as possible. If I read "transpiler" I immediately make the connection with the fact that it translates a high-level language into another high-level language (which is what prometeo does)- but maybe I am biased.
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You'd need to know what both languages are to know what it does, and with that knowledge you can just call it a compiler.