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Seems like they’re making up their own definition. I think most people consider a transpiler to be high level => high level while a compiler would be high level => low level

Nim, JavaScript and C are all high level languages. Do they gain something from being labeled as a compiler?

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I guess you get less brownie points for not doing all the steps yourself? Weird to me too. If it works great, it works great, and that's commendable.

Also, I'd classify C as a more intermediate language, rather than a high level one. It doesn't hold your hand as much as things like Python. So technically high -> intermediate would be going down a level, I suppose.

It's really all just playing semantics. I wouldn't mind if they labeled themselves a compiler or a transpiler. Doesn't really matter to me.

Going from Nim to C is clearly lowering the language. The general agreed definition of a compiler is going from a certain level to a lower level.

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