Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases Into Safe Rust

Canonical and UK’s University of Bristol partner to investigate automated C to Rust translations

Rust is slated to play a huge part in Ubuntu’s future. As a language that allows programmers more control over resource use and performance as well as removing many classes of memory safety issues, it’s an especially good choice for building security-sensitive software. But modernizing huge amounts of the legacy C code that currently powers the Linux operating system has been, and continues to be, a major challenge. “Rewrites have long been expe…

Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases Into Safe Rust

Canonical is funding research into automated C-to-Rust translation, with AppArmor and snap-confine serving as real-world case studies.