Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques?

Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com>
Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:26:45 -0000 (UTC)

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Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Meyer-Eltz@t-online.de (Detlef Meyer-Eltz) (2021-10-12)
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From: Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com>
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Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:26:45 -0000 (UTC)
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Posted-Date: 16 Oct 2021 13:48:12 EDT

On 2021-10-12, Detlef Meyer-Eltz <Meyer-Eltz@t-online.de> wrote:
> I'm working for years on the Delphi to C++ translater "Delphi2Cpp",
> without beeing aware, that this kind of software is called a "transpiler".


It isn't; that's just a word used by some web programming hipsters.
Transpilers are everywhere, because browsers are stuck with Javascript
as their lowest-level target language*, and it sucks so terribly that
people want to use almost anything else. The bar is quite low; it's easy
to write toy languages that spit out Javascript, so it has become a kind
of popular sport, and from there came "transpiling".


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* I know what Webassembly is; it's gadget for expressing lower-level
computations with machine-oriented types, to complement and accompany
Javascript; it is not a replacement for Javascript.)


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