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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by monocasa on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @09:17PM (#17087870)
Except that there's a true formal (in fact legal) distinction between a car and a truck (they have different emissions standards). The whole distinction between a 'transpilers' and other compilers on the other hand is 'what is the user going to do with the output'.
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Re:Show HN: A complete Bash parser in JavaScript transpiled ... by tlrobinson on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @10:18PM (#17088195)
That's not the disinction I've seen. I like Wikipedia's:

> translates between programming languages that operate at approximately the same level of abstraction

That's fairly straightforward, though a bit subjective (which doesn't preclude a word from having meaning)

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