On: TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly

[abiox]

well, there's even a wiki page for source-to-source translation. it's not always useful to distinguish 'truck' from 'automobile', but sometimes it is.

[dragonwriter → abiox]

It's sometimes useful to distinguish “truck” from “automobile”, but never when the thing being labelled a “truck” is a Honda Civic.

[abiox → dragonwriter]

are you saying it's not useful to refer to something as a transpiler if it's not a transpiler? that sounds reasonable.