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I've encountered this here recently as well, the belief that a 'compiler' has to target machine code. When really a compiler is just a translator from one program language to another.

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Too many people that are locked into the JS mental institution all the time?

and even if compilers were those that generate machine code (and they're not), what's wrong with (source-to-source) translator?

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