ai-translate

LLM-powered bi-directional fuzzy "translation". Works with spoken languages, transforming programming languages, translating pseudocode to real code, and more!

Installation

npm install -g @szymon_k/ai-translate

Setup

Create a file at ~/.ai-translate-key with your Anthropic API key:

echo "API KEY" > ~/.ai-translate-key

Usage

Start with translate file1 file2. If one of the files is empty, the translation will immediately start. If both of them have content, saving one of them triggers the translation into the other (which works in both directions).

translate [OPTIONS] <file1> <file2>

Options

• --model <name> - choose Claude model (default: sonnet-4.5)
• --help, -h - show help message
• --version, -v - show version number

Examples

Translating Between Languages

# Create two files
touch polish.md english.md
echo "Witaj świecie!" > polish.md

# Start the translator
translate polish.md english.md

The tool will automatically translate polish.md to english.md. After that, any changes to either file will trigger a translation to the other.

Code Transformation

# Transform imperative code to declarative style
translate imperative.ts declarative.ts

Example content in imperative.ts:

const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
const doubled = [];
for (let i = 0; i < numbers.length; i++) {
  doubled.push(numbers[i] * 2);
}

Will be transformed to declarative style in declarative.ts, like:

const numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
const doubled = numbers.map((n) => n * 2);

And changes to declarative.ts will be converted back to imperative style.

Converting Between Languages

translate script.js script.py

Write JavaScript in script.js:

function greet(name) {
  return `Hello, ${name}!`;
}

console.log(greet("World"));

And get Python in script.py:

def greet(name):
    return f"Hello, {name}!"

print(greet("World"))

License

MIT