In my experience claude.ai has near perfect grasp of what a program (that fits its window) is written to do. It can already make a program in another language t

In my experience claude.ai has near perfect grasp of what a program (that fits its window) is written to do. It can already make a program in another language that can do the same. What this means is that the cost of a full rewrite is going to come down dramatically over the next few years. This is an excellent example of government action I like to see, as it isn't about favoritism or the swamp dynamics. Just provide a target, a bounty and no or low barriers to entry. This challenge does push Rust out in front of everybody. That's a mixed blessing. I hope this challenge gets modified to not specify the target language, but instead the requirement of memory and type safety. Rust is likely an intermediate stop on the way to something better, and it shouldn't matter if that language is called Rust 2.0 or something else.