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Rewriting the Unix Stream Editor in Rust [Adventures in Code]
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A legacy Unix stream editor implemented in C was reengineered in Rust to explore systems porting, Rust’s safety and abstraction features, and generative AI’s role in code conversion, testing, and refactoring. Benefits and challenges of each are systematically examined.
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- 10.1109/ms.2025.3579008
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- IEEE Software
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