people have forgotten how useful deterministic code generation is (and will remain)
When the Go team ported the original compiler from C to Go, they wrote a program that did ~99% of the work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIE5nV5fDwA
https://go.dev/talks/2014/c2go.slide#18
it occurs to me how much better these endeavors might go if the prompt was
"write a program to transpile A to B" instead of "port A to B"
it occurs to me how much better these endeavors might go if the prompt was
"write a program to transpile A to B" instead of "port A to B"