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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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They did, it’s called rustc. A compliant C compiler cannot escape giving a programmer unfettered access to manipulate memory, so the problem is not in the compiler. There are safe subsets of C that don’t exhibit these problems, but a compiler that only supports such a subset is no longer a C compiler.

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Thanks, guess that makes sense, kinda.

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