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I do feel like they may be underestimating the difficulty of putting together automatic translator code...

Yes, because Rob Pike is so inexperienced. You should explain to him what he's getting in to.

Russ Cox is the one who is doing the compiler translator. He is not going to be out of his depth.

That's interesting, I didn't know that.

Doesn't really change the point, of course. :)