Comment by PKop
6 hours ago
> "Transpiler" means a compiler that outputs a human-readable format, such as source code. It's a cool sounding word, but most the time people use it to imply that a given compiler is in some way inferior. This is very silly, as there is nothing about compiling to a human-readable format that makes a compiler easier to implement.
Ok but this footnote comes at the end of a paragraph describing how the previous transpiler implementation was inferior to the new compiler. It's ok to make these distinctions.
The old one had an inferior implementation, but that is unrelated to the output format. We also have a new Erlang source code generator that is used predominantly in the compiler test suite, and it too is superior.