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by quotemstr 391 days ago
> it’s strongly associated with "turning source code into a single binary."

Using things because they sound nice without thinking about whether they make sense is pretty much the whole JavaScript community. :)

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This whole thread was uncalled for honestly. It takes source, it makes an exe, that meets the definition for compiler to me. Your pedantry is not useful.
How would you define the difference between a compiler and a linker?