The problem with translating between languages is that code that "looks the same and runs" are not equivalently idiomatic or "acceptable". It seems to turn into

The problem with translating between languages is that code that "looks the same and runs" are not equivalently idiomatic or "acceptable". It seems to turn into long files of if-statements, flags and checks and so on. This might be considered idiomatic enough in python, but not something you'd want to work with in functional or typed code.