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Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua

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229 points generichuman | 2 comments | 16 May 25 00:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.467s | source
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rfl890 ◴[16 May 25 01:40 UTC] No.44001073[source]▶
Is it implemented as a compiler, tl, which compiles .tl source code into .lua files? Who knows
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1. nmz ◴[16 May 25 22:20 UTC] No.44010279[source]▶
Isn't that called a transpiler?
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2. hisham_hm ◴[17 May 25 19:49 UTC] No.44016510[source]▶
"Transpiler" is a common term for source-to-source compilers in the industry, but compiler is the more general term (i.e. a transpiler is a kind of compiler). In academia, the term "transpiler" is somewhat sneered at. A source-to-source compiler is still a compiler, because conceptually compiling into assembly is also technically source-to-source.