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I totally understand your point - Astra doesn’t do register allocation or full parsing, so strictly speaking, it’s not a compiler in the traditional sense. I u

I totally understand your point - Astra doesn’t do register allocation or full parsing, so strictly speaking, it’s not a compiler in the traditional sense. I used the term "compiler" because for many developers, it’s strongly associated with "turning source code into a single binary." That’s what Astra does at a practical level - even if it's technically just bundling and embedding into a node executable using SEA and postject.

quotemstr 1y ago
> it’s strongly associated with "turning source code into a single binary." Using things because they sound nice without thinking about whether they make sense is pretty much the whole JavaScript community. :)
- Carrok 1y ago
  This whole thread was uncalled for honestly. It takes source, it makes an exe, that meets the definition for compiler to me. Your pedantry is not useful.
  - sleepdeep 1y ago
    How would you define the difference between a compiler and a linker?
dontlikeyoueith 1y ago
This is just dishonest marketing then.