diff --git a/1-js/03-code-quality/06-polyfills/article.md b/1-js/03-code-quality/06-polyfills/article.md index af38faad..9d119132 100644 --- a/1-js/03-code-quality/06-polyfills/article.md +++ b/1-js/03-code-quality/06-polyfills/article.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Here, in this chapter, our purpose is to get the gist of how they work, and thei ## Transpilers -A [transpiler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler) is a special piece of software that can parse ("read and understand") modern code, and rewrite it using older syntax constructs, so that the result would be the same. +A [transpiler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler) is a special piece of software that can parse ("read and understand") modern code, and rewrite it using syntax constructs that the target engine (even oudated ones) can run. E.g. JavaScript before year 2020 didn't have the "nullish coalescing operator" `??`. So, if a visitor uses an outdated browser, it may fail to understand the code like `height = height ?? 100`.