We identified 68 prominent open source projects with C code, collected their vulnerability history data, and used their CWE designations to explore a best-case speculation on how many vulnerabilities might have been prevented with Rust. We estimate that 58.2% of historical vulnerabilities in our selection of open source C projects would have been virtually impossible in Rust.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
  puts("Hello world");
  asm("/*");
  /* Nested comment */
  for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) puts("I LIKE PANCAKES!");
  asm("*/");
  puts("Goodbye world");
}

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int i) {

  do do do do "baby shark!";

  while (++i % 2);
  while (i == 2);
  while (i % 3); 
  while (i % 7);

  printf("The answer is %d.\n", i);

}

Eurydice is a compiler from Rust to C that aims to produce readable C code.

Having a backwards-compat scenario where Rust can be compiled to C serves several purposes.
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3. It allows for a census of problematic scenarios. By making the Rust version the default (and putting the fallback C behind a --write-us-an-email flag), there is finally a way to enumerate those mythical users who cannot switch to Rust just yet.