rui314: translating an entire C++ codebase to Rust was surprisingly easy with OpenAI Astra
charliermarsh · x · 2026-09-18
Well-known developer rui314 revealed that translating an entire C++ codebase to Rust was surprisingly straightforward with OpenAI Astra, likely because the model is so capable. He believes it would have been much harder six months ago — a data point suggesting frontier coding models have crossed a practical threshold for large-scale codebase migrations.
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