---
title: "Translate old scripts to a new language · Lenexa Learn"
description: "One developer used ChatGPT and Gemini to translate 20 years of Python scripts into Go, one script at a time."
url: https://www.lenexa.ai/learn/use-cases/translate-old-scripts-to-a-new-language/
site: "Lenexa Learn"
---

Software & DevOps

# Translate old scripts to a new language

One developer used ChatGPT and Gemini to translate 20 years of Python scripts into Go, one script at a time.

## Steps

1. Translate one script at a time.
2. Check the outputs match.
3. Keep the originals.

## Prompt you can copy

```
Translate this [language] script to [language], keeping the same behavior. Note anything that doesn't translate cleanly.
```

## Tools

- ChatGPT
- Gemini

For Developers. Added October 12, 2026.

## Source

[hn](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40161286) · April 2024

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