Friday, 24 April 2026

Dawn of the Transpiler

The term "transpiler" (referring to a source-to-source translation tool, or "translating compiler") gained popularity around 2013 with the proliferation of translators from TypeScript and other abstractions (CoffeeScript, Dart) into JavaScript.  

JavaScript at the time was becoming a "universal runtime".

Babel is a popular transpiler. tsc is the official transpiler. It can be installed via npm.

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