[thesz]

  > The engineering cost of migrating code bases is trending to 0

I work with code base of >750K LOC C++ that is 12+ years old and would like to migrate it to something fashionable like Futhark or Python. So, please, tell me more about your wonderful regular expression.

[miguelspizza]

I’m not sure why you would want to migrate a C++ codebase to an interpreted language?

[thesz]

I want to migrate from C++ because these languages are fashionable and hip and have more developers available and because migration with regular expressions is easy, apparently.

Actually, a colleague of mine asked me why people keep using bash for scripting instead of Python despite Python being obviously better in all regards. So I decided to joke around about this.