Canonical Funded a PhD to Translate C to Rust. Ask Why.
Canonical is funding three years of academic research into automated C-to-Rust translation. The published benchmarks explain why: the best result on a 100-repository benchmark is 48, and only with a repair loop, while researchers found just 69.9 percent of compiling translations behaved like the C they replaced.
August 24, 2026 · 13 min read