[bbkane]

Maybe? I feel like there's been lots of efforts to migrate large C++ codebases over the years, and few actually complete the migration. Heck, Google is even making Carbon to try to solve this.

[bluGill]

migrating any large project is going to be billions of dollars worth of labor. Language isn't a large factor in that cost, you can save few tens of millions at most with a better language.

[bbkane]

Can you give me some reasoning behind this statement ("language isn't a large factor in the cost of migrating a large project")?

I'm struggling to think of a larger factor