Re:DARPA: Translating All C to Rust (Tractor)
by pjmlp on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @10:17AM
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50 years are more than enough time to improve C's security story.
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Re:DARPA: Translating All C to Rust (Tractor)
by nanolith on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @11:29AM
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Yep, but we have to deal with what we have. For better or for worse, C remains where it is. We can either use process and tools to improve existing C, or throw our hands up.
I prefer to work toward fixing what is. We are unlikely to see things like array slices in C, and even if such features were added, this does nothing to fix the billions of lines of legacy code out there.