buh [she/her]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days agoDARPA initiates a new program to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming languagewww.darpa.milexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up155arrow-down1external-linkDARPA initiates a new program to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming languagewww.darpa.milbuh [she/her]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarehypercracker [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoI do kinda like the idea of using CHERI to run all this C code with memory safety properties enforced by hardware instead of rewriting it all in rust, but whatever either works
I do kinda like the idea of using CHERI to run all this C code with memory safety properties enforced by hardware instead of rewriting it all in rust, but whatever either works