buh [she/her]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months 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 months agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSpeaker [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 months agoYour bank runs on COBOL and your energy plants run on one of a family of PLC (programmable logic controller) languages. Most of the critical path in your day-to-day that runs C is the gaping security hole that is the internet.
Your bank runs on COBOL and your energy plants run on one of a family of PLC (programmable logic controller) languages. Most of the critical path in your day-to-day that runs C is the gaping security hole that is the internet.