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Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation
TL;DRCanonical is funding research to automatically convert C code to Rust.
Why it matters: Faster Rust migration reduces security vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure and legacy systems.
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It's FOSS: Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching…
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