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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by gfs on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:26PM (#23511972)
There is a lot of work being done on a translator now [0]. However, the goal is to translate C to equivalent Rust and then allow developers to intervene to migrate to safe Rust.

[0]: https://c2rust.com

EDIT: Oops, read the parent comment backwards.

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Re:Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry’s ‘Best Chance’ at Safe S... by zozbot234 on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:33PM (#23512024)
That's C to Rust, not Rust to C. (mrustc provides something like the latter, but it doesn't actually support full Rust.)
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