I'm not sure 25,000 lines translated in 2 weeks is "fast", for a naive translation between languages as similar as C++ and Rust (and Ladybird does modern RAII smart-pointer-y C++ which is VERY similar to Rust). You should easily be able to do 2000+ lines/day chunks.

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nicoburns 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, it also a lot that the person doing the translation is the lead developer of the project who is very familiar with the original version.

I imagine LLMs do help quite a bit for these language translation tasks though. Language translation (both human and programming) is one of the things they seem to be best at.

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camel-cdr 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agreed, however, I'm quite sure 25,000 lines translated in "multiple months" is very "slow", for a naive translation between languages as similar as C++ and Rust.

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OtomotO 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

2000+ lines/day chunks are 10 days for 20+k lines...

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nananana9 12 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm aware. What I meant is this is a reasonable output for a 1:1 translation by hand, without LLM use.

	▲	tonyedgecombe 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		2000 lines a day feels like a lot to me if you want to be thorough.