{
  "id": 2808737,
  "title": "Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/canonical-is-funding-a-phd-to-automate-c-to-rust-translation",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-23T14:34:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/08/23/0458226/canonical-is-funding-a-phd-to-automate-c-to-rust-translation"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog It's FOSS: Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set to run through the University of Bristol's Programming Languages Research…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}