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eatonphil.bsky.social • 93 days ago

Is it cringe to say "transpiler"? (yes)

after seeing yet another paper call something a "transpiler", i am once again requesting (telling) people to stop making up words that don't mean anything: rachit.pl/post/transpi...

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cuyler.io•93 days ago

But also (addressed elsewhere ) a transcompiler (transpiler) is a real thing. Not a JS meme.

ttkciar.bsky.social•92 days ago

It's another case of a useful word which has been well-defined since the 1980s, but hijacked by modern techbros to mean something bad.

mmullins.coginiti.co•93 days ago

The word clearly has meaning because both of you know what it means when people use it. When I say I can transpile Snowflake SQL to DuckDB I haven't failed to communicate, which is the function of language. Amazing how we can use words to communicate, even when need to negotiate meanings on the fly.

eatonphil.bsky.social•92 days ago

I didn't say it doesn't have meaning. I think it is a bad word though. People seem to use it to incorrectly downplay what they built and also as a misunderstanding of what compilers do.

mmullins.coginiti.co•92 days ago

Maybe I shouldn't have taken your repost as an endorsement of the headline. However, we talk SQL transpiling a lot in the data community and I think very few people relate that at all to compilers. You can try to police the language, but we're not the French. 😆

web-dev.bsky.social•93 days ago

Is it not useful to communicate the target and intention of the tool/process? Feels like it is

eatonphil.bsky.social•92 days ago

No I think it actually is not useful. It seems to exist to try to obfuscate both what the tool is and also what compilers are.

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