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DARPA Wants to Automatically Transpile C Code Into Rust - Using AI
America's Defense Department has launched a project "that aims to develop machine-learning tools that can automate the conversion of legacy C code into Rust," reports the Register — with an online event already scheduled later this month for those planning to submit proposals: The reason to...
America's Defense Department has launched a project "that aims to develop machine-learning tools that can automate the conversion of legacy C code into Rust," reports the Register — with an online event already scheduled later this month for those planning to submit proposals: The reason to do so is memory safety. "The research challenge is to dramatically improve the automated translation from C to Rust, particularly for program constructs with the most relevance...." DARPA's characterization of the situation suggests the verdict on C and C++ has already been rendered. And even DARPA's program manager conceded to the Register that "some things like the Linux kernel are explicitly out of scope, because they've got technical issues where Rust wouldn't fit."
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