From the very end of the linked article:

> Lindsey Kuper has a well-written article[1] on the same topic

> [1]: https://decomposition.al/blog/2017/07/30/what-do-people-mean...

So maybe go read that one instead, because the linked article is sloppily written with lots of careless mistakes and an unclear motivation that probably the author was hazily aware of at the time of writing but failed to communicate.

Also he's wrong because of course there are transpilers and it's a meaningful word.