Canonical is Funding a PhD to Automate C to Rust Translation

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 Group.
The PhD is aiming to build an all-encompassing platform that can take a C repository running into