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Canonical and UK Research and Innovation fund a three-year PhD project to automate C to Rust translation
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Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD project at the University of Bristol to develop a system that automatically translates large C codebases into safe and maintainable Rust.
Automated translation from C to Rust could reduce the manual effort required to migrate legacy systems to memory-safe languages. The success of this research would provide a tool for handling codebases with hundreds of thousands of lines, though the project is a long-term academic effort rather than an immediate production tool.
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Canonical and UK Research and Innovation are jointly funding a three-year PhD project at the University of Bristol.
The project aims to build a platform that translates large C codebases into safe and maintainable Rust.
PhD student Alex Wood will conduct the research under Professor Meng Wang and Canonical's Jon Seager.
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