Translating the Future: Transpilers and the New Temporalities of Programming in JavaScript
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This essay is about transpilation and the future of translation work done by machines. Transpilation is a particularly ugly portmanteau word that refers, in web development, to a particularly confusing new concept used in building online JavaScript application. Mashing together translation with compilation, it refers to the process of translating one human-readable computer programming language into another. While compilation without translation refers to the conversion of human-readable programming languages into the digital codes understandable by computers, the end product of transpilation is another human-readable language.
