On the other hand, we have terms like "C compiler", "linker", "assembler", and many others, which are kinds of compilers. You can't just assert that a distinction is arbitrary, you need to say why you think this distinction is arbitrary and pointless.
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Yes, that’s much better put than I could :)
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I think this distinction makes a little more sense but ultimately still confuses more than it clarifies. Coffeescript, Clojurescript, and GHCjs are really different systems that are not helpfully included in one particular subset of the space of compilers.
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Well, I consider all three transpilers. But maybe my definition is wrong!
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my experience with "transpiler" is that it's used to put down some compilers, and I don't think that's acceptable. I don't think that a term like "transpiler" has enough benefit to outweigh that.
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I feel like "source to source compiler" was a descriptive and useful term that we had used for a long time and that's why transpiler sounds silly and useless to a lot of us
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