Transpiler Who knows anything about early usage of the the term “transpiler”, particularly in relationship to JavaScript? Who introduced it to the JS community? From 1994-2001 it was a register trademark, for a VMS Basic to C translator http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:7gwrv6.2.1 …
...with Peter Hallam (and maybe @ErikArvidsson? Don't recall all the shenanigans). Traceur was post-CoffeeScript but may have been one of the first http://JS.next -> http://JS.now compilers.
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Traceur was clearly the first http://js.next to http://js.now compiler but AFAIR we didn't use the term transpiler early on. I blame
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Turns out my talk linked to a 2005 Wikipedia entry, and someone in 1990s tmed “transpiler” but did not file the seven year forms.
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