[martinflack]

Even for porting there's a bit of ambiguity... Do you port line-for-line or do you adopt idioms of the target language? Do you port bug-for-bug as well as feature-for-feature? Do you leave yet-unused abstractions and opportunities for expansion that the original had coded in, if they're not yet used, and the target language code is much simpler without?

I've found when porting that the answers to these are sometimes not universal for a codebase, but rather you are best served considering case-by-case inside the code.

Although I suppose an AI agent could be created that holds a conversation with you and presents the options and acts accordingly.