Canonical Backs Quest to Translate Mountains of C Into Safe Rust with AI
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Canonical backs quest to translate mountains of C into safe Rust with AI
Canonical's fondness for AI and Rust is no secret. Now it is co-funding a three-year PhD project investigating whether the former can translate large C codebases into the latter. Engineering veep Jon Seager announced the investment on Ubuntu's Discourse forum. The PhD project will be conducted at the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group. So don't panic. This is not an announcement that Canonical will turn the bots loose t…
Canonical funds a doctoral thesis aimed at automating the conversion of old C-code bases to the Rust language using artificial intelligenceThe Rust language has gained much visibility in recent years, to the point that it is now found in the Linux kernel. For many players in the software development industry, it is time to stop initiating new C or C++ projects and to move to Rust taking into account the advantages it offers in terms of...
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SlashdotCanonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It's FOSS: Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set to run through the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research Group. The PhD is aiming to build an all-encompassing…
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