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"rendering engine" has a pretty clear meaning and is a pretty poor term to use for a system for tranforming one kind of text bits into another.

Perhaps you should consider using less confusing terminology in your vocabulary?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Engine/Ren...

Edit: You say "often used for both" but I am struggling to find any other examples. Yhe closest I can find is this extremely poorly named static site generator project: https://github.com/render-engine/render-engine?tab=readme-ov...

Edit2: Man, the appropriation of the term "rendering" by JS people has led to some pretty stupid stuff, like this statement: "SSR, short for Server-Side Rendering, is a technique in web development where the webpage's content is rendered on the server instead of the client's browser."



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