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DARPA initiates a new program to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming language(www.darpa.mil)

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it’s joever for Cniles (I am one of them 😔)

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Also considering that a lot of this C code is going to be extremely critical code pathways, like making sure your banks don’t collapse and your energy plants don’t blow up, the major pain paths for migrating to another language are going to be rigorously testing every last path through it, not rewriting it.

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Your bank runs on COBOL and your energy plants run on one of a family of PLC (programmable logic controller) languages. Most of the critical path in your day-to-day that runs C is the gaping security hole that is the internet.

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