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DARPA Aims to Ditch C Code, Move to Rust (www.darkreading.com)

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launches TRACTOR program to work with university and industry researchers on creating a translation system that can turn C code into secure, idiomatic Rust code.

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[–] Evilschnuff@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

The title is a bit misleading. They’re building a tool to convert c to rust which is supposed to help with the transition.