Fine, but by that logic, gcc with -O0 is a transpiler, and becomes a compiler again with -O2. Similarly, TS transpiles to JS, but, say, ClojureScript compiles to JS. And if a compiler is built with something like Nanopass, it's a sequence of transpilers that somehow become a compiler along the way.
chrisseaton|6 years ago
antisemiotic|6 years ago
What is the difference, if there's one well-defined language before the pass and another after it?
>A non-optimising C to assembly compiler is not compiling to the same level of abstraction.
Neither are "transpilers", otherwise they'd be quite useless. Abstraction isn't a linear hirerarchy, in any case.