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The standard term for this kind of compiler is "transpiler", afaik.

Here's the Wikipedia page for such things, which also taught me several other names for them:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler






The standard term for "transpiler" is "compiler", though.



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