Re:Transpiling between any programming languages (2019)
by firethief on Sunday February 16, 2020 @01:34PM
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Any language that can be compiled for x86 can be transpiled to any language in which an interpreter of x86 opcodes could be written. The question is what level of abstraction can be preserved; if it requires lowering that far, it's not likely to be worth it.
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Re:Transpiling between any programming languages (2019)
by yters on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:51PM
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Well, for that matter any Turing complete language can embed an interpreter/compiler for any other Turing complete language. If that's all that is meant by transpiling, it is no different than something like the JVM.
My understanding of 'transpiling' is that it is meant to convert, say, idiomatic Python into idiomatic Java.