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by mmastrac 700 days ago
In the absence of an AST based tool, that's probably an absolute minimum of 20-40 hours of dev time (likely more) at $100-200 hourly, no?
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There is no AST tool nor anyone had solved cross language refactor. Direct me if I'm wrong
They mean running it on typescript post conversion.
I just meant for processing, not compared to skilled or mindless translation done by humans.
$70 is not a lot given the value of the output. I understand where you're coming from, though, but it's important to compare against the value the human labour this is replacing.
Why 70 is not a lot? Value for money