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DARPA wants to accelerate translation of C code to Rust – and it’s relying on AI to do it

The American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to use AI to automate the translation of legacy C code to Rust to avoid known memory safety vulnerabilities.    The C programming language dates from the 1970s, but remains ubiquitous on everything from “smartphones to space vehicles”, DARPA noted. That’s in part because of the popularity of C and C++,…