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I'm now horrified to learn that you experience is the norm.

And that the cognitive dissonance to say:

> ...is not a compiler, it's a transpiler, since it compiles to...

is alive and well.

Mea culpa.



Welcome to the webdev world. It keeps inventing new terms for things that already have established terms for decades, probably because it's rare anyone bothers to look back at the decades of stuff not done in JS...




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