A few years ago there was a blog post trend going around about “write you’re own x” instead of using a library or something. You learn a lot about how software by writing your own version of a thing. Want to learn how client side routing works? Write a client side router. I think LLMs have basically made it so anything can be “library” code. So really it comes down to what you want to get out of the project. Do you want to get better at C#? Then you should probably do the port yourself. If you just want to have the ported code and focus on some other aspect, then have Claude do it for you.

Really if your goal is to learn something, then no matter what you do there has to be some kind of struggle. I’ve noticed whenever something feels easy, I’m usually not really learning much.