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Re:Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebase... by dgan on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:47AM (#49375397)
can it be done? C codebase are obviously missing the lifetime information, type-generic arguments are just void*, in/out arguments aren't explicit... or at least, the information is scattered across the codebase, and might be inconsistent. a "safe rust" might not be even possible
Re:Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebase... by dmix on Friday August 21, 2026 @03:23PM (#49392736)
The article says that is the whole question they are exploring and have 3yr project to try