It can (in theory) do very similar things, where natural-language input is a first class citizen of the language and can operate on other objects. The whole thing came out almost a decade before LLMs, I'm surprised that they haven't revamped it to make it really shine.
// read files
const file = await workspace.readText("data.txt");
// include the file
content in the prompt in a context-friendly way def("DATA", file);
// the task
$`Analyze DATA and extract data in JSON in data.json.`;