Jeremy Tribby (@tribby.com)

interesting research out of KAIST - automatic C to rust translation, focusing on last mile and correctness, outperforming LLMs. doing a naïve port from a language you don't know, even with tooling, it's always these last mile problems that take forever.. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Automatically Translating C to Rust | Communications of the ACM Legacy system programs developed in C have suffered from prevalent memory bugs. Migrating these systems to Rust is a promising way to enhance reliability, thanks to Rust’s strong safety guarantee. Due to the high cost of manual migration, automatic C-to-... Automatic C-to-Rust translation tools are helpful, but they produce unsafe and unidiomatic code. What can be done to address these issues? https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3737696