The reason to do so is memory safety. Memory safety bugs, such buffer overflows, account for the majority of major vulnerabilities in large codebases.
"The research challenge is to dramatically improve the automated translation from C to Rust, particularly for program constructs with the most relevance."
Relying on bug-finding tools is not enough. The private-sector messaging from tech giants like Google and Microsoft has influenced the public sector towards memory-safe programming languages.
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