[dzaima]

Transpilers are a subset of compilers, even if somewhat often "compiler" is used to refer to the ones producing executables.

And .exe-s still need the OS, dynamic libraries, and, perhaps most importantly, the CPU (which is pretty much a VM interpreter, modern CPUs having what's essentially a custom IR, peephole optimizations, aliasing analysis, JITting, loop unrolling, PGO, caching, ...), to run.