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Re:Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The ... by acdha on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @10:25AM (#22309516)
For new projects, sure. For existing projects, it's not trivial to convert them and anyone working on something significant is going to need time to do a migration during which additional new C code will almost certainly need to be written.
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Re:Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The ... by xvilka on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:30AM (#22310197)
It can be semi-automated with the amazing c2rust[1] tool.

[1] https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

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Re:Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The ... by acdha on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @12:50PM (#22310922)
“semi-” is not a synonym for “easily done with production-ready results”. Until that changes, people are going to need to write new C code even if they're working to refactor their code into a better language.
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