Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Kaz Kylheku <480-992-1380@kylheku.com> Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Are transpiling techniques different than compiling techniques? Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 17:26:45 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <21-10-026@comp.compilers> References: <21-10-017@comp.compilers> <21-10-019@comp.compilers> Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="64878"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: translator Posted-Date: 16 Oct 2021 13:48:12 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2734 On 2021-10-12, Detlef Meyer-Eltz 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". --- * 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.)