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Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by dragonwriter on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:46AM (#16077222)
It's sometimes useful to distinguish “truck” from “automobile”, but never when the thing being labelled a “truck” is a Honda Civic.
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Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by abiox on Friday January 05, 2018 @02:53AM (#16077240)
are you saying it's not useful to refer to something as a transpiler if it's not a transpiler? that sounds reasonable.
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