Opus 5.5 Ports TypeScript Compiler to Rust in Two Weeks
A GitHub project used Claude Opus 5.5 to port the TypeScript compiler to Rust for about $24,000 over two weeks, passing all 181,711 ported tests.
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A GitHub project used Claude Opus 5.5 to port the TypeScript compiler to Rust for about $24,000 over two weeks, passing all 181,711 ported tests.
GitHub says Copilot's agent runtime went from roughly 430,000 lines of TypeScript to 832,378 lines of Rust in 14.5 weeks, led mostly by one engineer and AI agents.
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