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The use case is to bootstrap the conversion from C to Go, if one has made a decision to do so. You pick a cutoff time, and say “now were going to do our work in Go”.

What comes out the other end, as Russ phrases it, is a C program in Go syntax. The next phase of work is to turn it into “Go” as a human might write it.

The translated program is not meant for deployment, really. It’s to give the humans a starting point.



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