> There is hope that LLMs can be used to convert shell scripts to other languages, because they can make the jump that experienced devs have learned to avoid: r

> There is hope that LLMs can be used to convert shell scripts to other languages, because they can make the jump that experienced devs have learned to avoid: rewriting from scratch. What else do you do when refactoring in small steps is not feasible? There were some languages shown in HN that compile to sh/bash (like oilshell[0]). I would think that's also a viable vector of attack but not sure how viable it actually is i.e. maintainers might have moved on for various reasons. [0] https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils