[jchw]

If the transpiler is not breaking any defined behavior in C, there is no reason to believe it cannot be a perfectly reasonable solution. There is nothing inherently wrong with targeting another programming language when compiling code, it does not mean there is anything wrong or broken with the generated code or its semantics.

It is a less battle-tested C compiler, sure, but it's a C compiler. IMO, you can't argue that something shouldn't be called sqlite because it contains a transpiled copy of sqlite. To me this isn't really substantially different from transpiling sqlite to JS using Emscripten.