Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by philipp-gayret 46 days ago
Would be an interesting concept and read were it grounded in reality. Unfortunately, it's data and graphs pulled out of someone's imagination. Reality is nowadays with the right skillset you can take state of the art AI tools and get a complete language rewrite and or refactor and be done the same afternoon.
1 comments

At least if you a test suite that doesn't have to be migrated. I too would like to migrate some services from Python to Rust but my test suite is written in Python so I would have to actually check if the test suite migration was correct manually (I can't event compile it!) before doing the rewrite.