you're saying they don't exist. He's pointing out that the JS ecosystem has an established use of the term as a subset of the term "compiler", which you're kinda erasing. (There's a difference b/w "transpilers don't exist" and "all transpilers are compilers too")
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I think this definition has to include CFront if it's to be useful, at least in 1985.
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Sure, in 1985 cfront could be considered a transpiler. I’m not claiming there is some clear-cut definition of “high-level language”. “Transpiler” is a fuzzy, imprecise term, but it has a meaning just as much as the term “high-level language” has a meaning.
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C is absolutely a high level language
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Hence why I said “inheriting all the fuzziness in the term ‘high-level language’”.
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