• derpgon@programming.dev
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      8 hours ago

      That’s transpiling, not compiling. Compiling is usually meant as “directly to machine code”, but I am yet to find an “official definition”.

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        6 hours ago

        There is no official definition, in part because there isn’t any formal way to define the term that satisfies our intuition.

        Most treatments will handle “transpiling” as a special case of “compiling” and some will even handle decompilation as a special case where the object language is higher level than the source. Of course, even defining “higher level” can be quite hard.

        Plenty of languages “compile to C” and I see no issue with saying something “compiles to js,” especially given that js mostly lacks features of purescript rather than the other way around.