Claude Code Ports 210K Lines of 1990s C++ to Web in Two Months
moenig · x · 2026-08-14
A developer shared an impressive AI coding achievement: using Anthropic's Claude Code, they successfully ported ToonTalk—a project originally written in 1992 consisting of 210,000 lines of C++ code—to the modern web.
The massive porting project took two months, during which the developer interacted with Claude Code through 525 messages and extensive testing to modernize the legacy codebase.
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