idk, i'm not sure about wording. erlang abstract form still is erlang source, it's ast of erlang source text. one call to erl_prettypr:format and text source is back. word 'transpiler' is still there and there is nothing "pejorative" in it, it's transpilers all the way down everywhere.

but talking pejorative, i was surprised. my opinion of gleam was already pretty low, but i did not expect to see post-1.0 compiler emitting text erlang source. maybe it's not that good of idea to implement compiler in language completely foreign to target ecosystem.