Who wants to make a TRACTOR pull request?
To accelerate the transition to memory safe programming languages, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is driving the development of TRACTOR, a programmatic code conversion vehicle.
"You can go to any of the LLM websites, start chatting with one of the AI chatbots, and all you need to say is 'here's some C code, please translate it to safe idiomatic Rust code,' cut, paste, and something comes out, and it's often very good, but not always," said Dan Wallach, DARPA program manager for TRACTOR, in
The software engineering community has reached a consensus. Relying on bug-finding tools is not enough "After more than two decades of grappling with memory safety issues in C and C++, the software engineering community has reached a consensus," the research agency said, pointing to the Office of the National Cyber Director's call to do more to make software more secure."Relying on bug-finding tools is not enough."
Peter Morales, CEO of Code Metal, a company that just raised $16.5 million to focus on transpiling code for edge hardware, told"I think is very sound in terms of the viability of getting there and I think it will have a pretty big impact in the cybersecurity space where memory safety is already a pretty big conversation," he said.
the goal is to achieve a high level of automation, which will require overcoming some tricky technical challenges.
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