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The Elephant in the Room: Why This AST Translation Must Be Code-Generated

Translate a TypeScript compiler AST (via protobuf/gRPC) into your own generalized model. Learn visitor-based traversal, node-to-node and property-to-node mapping, normalization with synthetic nodes, and why code generation is the only scalable approach.

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