alt Hacker NewsThis is all wild conjecture, but I'd assume that teaching the LLM to do that mapping is an achievable goal and then it get's close to automatic -- effectively slurp the source AST into a rust AST and render.
My only experience with ports so far is Python to Go, and it's been near flawless (just enough stupid shit to make me feel justified to be in the loop).
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spem-in-allium • today at 2:30 AM
I'm porting a large-ish delphi application to c sharp. It's been pretty hands-off except for converting to async and some language capability mismatch.
It really isn't if you don't have the right abstractions.
Especially for memory management the right and wrong abstractions in Rust can lead to a factor of 5 or 10 extra amount of difficulty. The right memory management abstraction and your code can be a straight line port (or even cleaner!), the wrong one and you're going to just be spending a lot of tokens to have a machine spin around in circles trying to untie itself
GC'd languages don't have this problem, though obviously you can still generate stupid amount of pain for yourself by doing something wrong