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submitted 1 month ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/tech@programming.dev

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[–] pelya@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess it will translate the majority of the code which does not contain unsafe parts, and leave the pointer manipulation for manual rewrite.

[–] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or maybe it'll write the unsafe parts in unsafe blocks?

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then there's no point. Converting the code to Rust as-is will also transfer all the bugs.

[–] FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

There is. It's a starting point to start converting the code to safe Rust. Some obstacles are removed.