Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques?

From	Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques?
Date	2021-10-16 17:26 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<21-10-026@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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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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Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> - 2021-10-11 13:26 +0000
  Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Kartik Agaram <ak@akkartik.com> - 2021-10-11 11:23 -0700
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-12 20:05 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-10-16 17:16 +0000
      Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2021-10-16 20:22 +0000
      Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-16 23:55 +0200
        Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-17 07:02 +0200
          Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2021-10-17 15:01 -0700
  Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? "Detlef Meyer-Eltz" <Meyer-Eltz@t-online.de> - 2021-10-12 11:34 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? jan van katwijk <j.vankatwijk@gmail.com> - 2021-10-12 17:59 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2021-10-12 20:19 +0200
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Christopher F Clark <christopher.f.clark@compiler-resources.com> - 2021-10-14 00:33 +0300
    Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> - 2021-10-16 17:26 +0000
      Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? gah4 <gah4@u.washington.edu> - 2021-10-17 08:37 -0700

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