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This is true, but AI is closing the gap.

"Take this Ruby gem and write the equivalent functionality in Elixir" is something that LLMs are very good at.




That's over simplifying things ... no, complex gems cannot simply be transformed to Elixir with ChatGPT. You'd have to have an expert in both languages fixing all the bugs.




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