I don't have any anecdotes to offer, but I am curiously following how the Logica team get on here https://github.com/EvgSkv/logica/discussions/126

What are the translators you've been looking at?

From memory, they managed 90% of it easily, and then struggled with the last 10%

Sorry, I was thinking D2RQ when I said “they”

I wasn't sure where to start with looking for quality translators/compilers. I'll start at logica and D2RQ