alt Hacker NewsI used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400
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Following the recent "Rewriting bun in Rust" I thought to run an experiment which turned out to be success.
The title is the worst part of the essay. Which is super interesting, to wit: fable's a very capable model when it comes to transforming concepts in and out of structural descriptions, and you can use it (along with a test suite I presume) to transpile a codebase. I wouldn't have thought to do this, but I think it makes sense, and I like it - it's using model intelligence at a few different steps for sensible things. Thanks for the writeup. De clickbait your title though or you'll keep getting clickbait rage responses :)
The best language a program to be written in is the original.
Languages have conventions and best practices that aren’t portable.
We could port COBOL to c and do a crap ton of goto/jmps and make a
BEGIN MESSwhat did i read? genuinely? its only a few words, and even that had to be AI written. The topic in the title barely was mentioned.
And ROI of 0?
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I recently performed this exact exercise of converting a complex library set from one language into an intermediate state machine representation and then translated into N other languages. It worked well but there's a lot of caveats. I'd highly recommend a direct "port" in most cases tbh, as many bugs are "load bearing" and may not survive the intermediate translation. I speak from experience.