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I don't see them discussing what I view as the biggest question of such conversion: is the converted code safer than C, or is it a direct translation with all the issues that we were trying to fix by using Rust? (This came up, IIRC, with automatic C to Go; it worked, but was only useful as a first step because it gave you unsafe unidiomatic Go code)


It is currently a direct translation into unsafe.

They are also interested in "unsafe to safe refactoring tools" in my understanding, but they're not there yet.



Oh awesome! Thank you!




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