if there's an escape hatch you should probably use it. In my experience companies never support you during rewrites "well why don't you just convert the code to

if there's an escape hatch you should probably use it. In my experience companies never support you during rewrites "well why don't you just convert the code to X language" almost never works on a huge project, it takes a ground up approach, and relying on the old stuff as "more like guidelines than the actual law"