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Re:Why Elm? [pdf] by dragonwriter on Monday May 08, 2017 @08:58PM (#14296925)
> Halogen is written in Purescript, which is a transpiler for javascript (yes transpiler, not compiler).

Transpilers are a subset of compilers; it is impossible for "yes transpiler, not compiler" to be true.

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Re:Why Elm? [pdf] by KirinDave on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:25PM (#14301367)
Thank you for being a force for sanity in the universe. "Transpiler" is a distinction without a difference to add yet more jargon to our already cryptic profession.
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