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DARPA project for automated translation from C to Rust (2024)


w program to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming language Jul 31, 2024 Memory safety vulnerabilities are the most prevalent type of disclosed software vulnerability1 and affect a computer's memory in two primary ways. First, programming languages like C allow programmers to manipulate memory directly, making it easy to accidentally introduce errors in their program that would enable a seemingly routine operation to corrupt the state of memory.

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