compiling

A compiler is a computer program (or a set of programs) that transforms source code written in a programming language (the source language) into another computer language (the target language). The most common reason for converting source code is to create an executable software.

The process of the code converting is called compiling.

The example of such compiling can be found in Prestashop e-commerce engine, where Smarty templates (represents quite simple HTML code) are converted into PHP files.

The main benefit of compiling is making templates development much faster and easy to learn. It allows to convert a clean and compact design-dedicated syntax into the complex programming code.