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Tried pasting a big piece of code. "Whoah, that's big, try something smaller." Ok, paste small snippet of code. Click "translate". "Sign up first". Urgh, fine,
by MauranKilom 4y ago
Tried pasting a big piece of code. "Whoah, that's big, try something smaller." Ok, paste small snippet of code. Click "translate". "Sign up first". Urgh, fine, this looks just about exiting enough to try, but barely so.
After signing up, I have zero credits, without a single translation performed. I mean, not that I expect free lunch, but I'm also not gonna pay money before seeing a single 10 line example.
- lofatdairy 4y agoAt least the samples seem legit, in the sense that some break the algorithm badly enough that we can be confident they weren't hard-coded lol.
- john_the_writer 4y agoha ha
- probably_a_gpt 4y agoPlus a trivial translation is just that, trivial. It’s not going to rewrite the huge web of dependencies that any given app consists of, nor will it recreate the various differences between runtime environments for interpreted languages. It’s essentially a cute party trick. Stuff like copilot is where I see the utility in the space.
- cyanydeez 4y agoNot today anyway, but it's not like this type of conversion lives in a unknown future.
- withinboredom 4y agoThere are some bits that just simply cannot be translated. For example, you can’t just “translate” a stdlib function from a high level language into a low level language, there’s likely no comparison in the low level language.
- colordrops 4y agoI was about to come back to this thread and post almost the exact same comment. I didn't even get 10 lines - I just converted the 3 line typescript example that was already there, and couldn't try anything else. There's no way I'd ever pay for this.