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mixed HN is impressed that a large, real-world Zig codebase could be mechanically moved to Rust with heavy LLM assistance, especially with an existing test suite and the original author supervising. But the thread is wary of overgeneralizing: commenters question token costs, test-suite hill-climbing, unsafe Rust, community h — latest discussion,
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