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[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java

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I think you vastly overestimate the separability of these systems.

Picture 10,000 lines of code in one method, with a history of multiple decades.

Now picture that that method has buried in it, complex interactions with another method of similar size, which is triggered via an obscure side-effect.

Picture whole teams of developers adding to this on a daily basis in realtime.

There is no "meaningful progress" to be made here. It may offend your aesthetic sense, but it's just the reality of doing business.

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Rust Foundation Security Initiative Report

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Apology appreciated, but unnecessary.

I don't want to derail a useful tool. It's worth going a bit beyond "hope" as a strategy, however, and thinking about if (how) this might be exploited.

I doubt anyone will be mining crypto in your sandbox. But perhaps you should think about detection; might it be possible to mask a malicious crate with a second that attempts to detect sandboxed compilation, for instance?

In any case, I think this still looks exceedingly interesting in the typical case, which is of detecting the impact of bugs from non-malicious actors.

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Given the widespread existence of wasm sandboxing, rustc itself might want to think about alternative strategies for running compiler plugins. I suspect there'd be a performance hit with such an approach, but wasm tooling is getting really good; perhaps it is minor.

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Is moving to IPv6 worth it?

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Doesn't need to be a "traditional" container. Modulo noisy-neighbour issues, wasm sandboxing could potentially offer an order of magnitude better density (depending on what you're running; this might be more suited to specific tasks than providing a substrate for a general-purpose conpute service).

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