The Great Refactor initiative aims to convert open-source software from C and C++ into Rust, a more secure language. Rust is specifically designed to prevent memory exploits from occurring. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-code-rust-great-refactor?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116030177478995194
my neighbor told me exploits keep happening to his repos so i asked how many maintainers he has and he said he just has a makefile that tells an llm to refactor the entire thing into rust for releases so i said it sounds like he's just feeding cve's to rust hackers and then his claude ran out of credits
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116030177478995194
What is the point of converting this software?
Who’s gonna maintain it?
Unless you have interest from the maintainers, you have a bunch of code that no one uses and no one maintains. Good job, folks.
I see nothing on these sites that explain how they hope to drum up maintenance, or even engage the maintainers of the original code.
Once again, the critical part of FOSS is ignored. It’s the people.