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For the details on that transpiler: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/03/30/the-road-to-fogbug...

I would recommend going through all of Joel Spolsky’s posts between 2000 and 2010, there are plenty of absolute diamonds. Part of why StackOverflow was so successful was because Joel had built a big audience of geeks and entrepreneurs with his excellent blog posts (he was the Excel PM during the creation of VBA and had plenty of accrued wisdom to share), so they adopted SO almost instantaneously when him and Jeff Atwood built it.



"“don’t you mean translator?“

Let me explain.

In computer science jargon a translator IS a compiler. It’s exactly the same thing. Those are synonyms."

Every time someone says "transpiler", god kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens.




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