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Yes, but it's also correct to say that he wrote a compiler.

He is taking the assembly code you type in and translating it to machine code, then he's translating the machine code to JavaScript source, then executing that source directly.

Translating a program from one language to another is compilation, by definition. While the first translation step could also be considered assembling, the second cannot.



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