[MontyCarloHall]

Hah, I have a friend who spent a large chunk of an undergraduate summer internship at Google porting a >50k line bash script (that was used in production!) to Python. It was not their most favorite summer, to say the least.

[andi999]

How does one do that? I mean you just can type 50k lines in 2.5 month if you type 1000 lines per day. Which sound a lot to me.

[thyrsus]

It's only possible if you can identify large portions of the 50k original lines as having been previously implemented by other components (python modules, microservices, etc.), or that large portions are dealing with cases that are guaranteed to no longer arise (so you either produce different results or error out if you detect them).