I've written multiple transpilers and their comment is how I do it. Safely mapping identifiers is one of those many edge cases you discover as you go along

They technically didn't say that they don't use programming languages, they said they're not a programmer. There's plenty of other people who use programming languages regularly, but not necessarily because they're into them.

You may have missed this in their comment:

> resolving identifiers as symbols, and then choose legal names for them in the target language

The responsibility for avoiding collision with the target language is in the transpiler; it should mangle identifiers appropriately to ensure you can't accidentally hit a keyword in the target language.

It's kind of hilarious isn't it?

"I don't even write code, yet here is my technical assessment of how a tricky software problem should work".

> I'm really sorry to be harsh but if you don't use programming languages and have never written a transpiler, why should anyone read your comment?

Lots of reasons. If you can't come up with one then you're not the intended audience, and that's fine.

I made the comment for several reasons. Here's two: (1) I had high confidence that my understanding is correct and wanted to share my knowledge with others. (2) In case my understanding wasn't correct I was hoping someone would correct me, resulting in both me and others learning some interesting nuance.

As for why you in particular should read my comment: Curiosity. There are few traits that are as important to strategic thinking, creativity and success in reaching ones goals as curiosity. When I see something that doesn't map to my understanding of the world my reaction is to wonder whether I'm missing something. It has served me incredibly well so far.