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		Klathmon on Feb 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedl... I've never heard the term "transpiler" used to refer to anything DSL specific. I've only ever heard it used for source-to-source compilers for JavaScript dialects.

brett40324 on Feb 14, 2018 [–]

Any source code to source code translation is considered transpilation until targeting byte code or other form of representation that is byte code, VM, or CPU specific. The terms do become blurred sometimes.

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