The author successfully used Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to translate non-trivial codebases from C++ to Java and from Haskell to Clojure, with impressive results. While the technical achievement is notable, the author emphasizes that the real excitement lies in the new opportunities this capability unlocks for code migration and language translation. The post reflects on the author's background in NLP and contrasts current LLM capabilities with their earlier work on Polish language processing tools.
Background
Large language models like Claude have shown increasing capability in code understanding and generation tasks. Code translation between programming languages has traditionally been a challenging problem requiring deep semantic understanding of both source and target languages.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Mar 28, 2026 at 06:58 PM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10