Canonical is supporting a new three-year research project to make it practical to automatically move large, mature software projects from C to Rust. The project is a partnership between Canonical and the University of Bristol in the UK, and the work is set to start later in 2026. The main goal is to build a complete platform that can translate large code repositories, sometimes with hundreds of thousands of lines of C, into safe, reliable, and maintainable Rust. However, the bigger challenge is ...