... huh?
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is GHC a transpiler then? I mean, it compiles down to (a variant of) C
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C isn’t high-level (and C-- less so), so no
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By this definition no C/C++ compiler is a transpiler, nor is any compiler that targets assembly or an IR like JVM or .NET bytecode. But Java-to-JS would be a transpiler because source and target are both high-level.
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The practical distinction is a transpiler compiles to something you can tolerate looking at. That has actual user impact: CoffeeScript adoption was easier because users knew if CoffeeScript died, they could take the generated JS with them. ...
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Users and developers of transpiled languages could get by without needing to build lots of debugging infrastructure because most devs could reasonably debug and step through the generated code. ...
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