Re:A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly
by vanderZwan on Saturday January 16, 2016 @12:05PM
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Getting a bit off-topic here, but since I have been wondering about what makes "transpiling" different from the existing word of "compiling", would you say that proper usage would be "reversible compilation with zero loss of information"?
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Re:A look at asm.js and the future with WebAssembly
by mchahn on Saturday January 16, 2016 @01:03PM
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> would you say that proper usage would be "reversible compilation with zero loss of information"?
Isn't that possible with many languages since the compiled code snippets are obvious.
I've always thought transpiling was defined as compiling from one language to another language that is at the same abstraction level. Usually compiling goes from a high abstract level to lower.