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refusing to use the word transpiler is a sign of having actual experience with building compilers, I think

@hikari ZOMFG i built an INT to FLOAT transpiler /j

@hikari a "transpiler" is to me a category of compiler, where the backend is another high level human readable language

but everyone says they're a compiler when they're good, and a transpiler when they're bad. when really, it's as much an implementation detail as interpreter vs compiler

anyone who uses "transpiler" as an insult to software has no idea what a compiler is or how it works