• Rust in Android: move fast and fix things (Google Security Blog)

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Fri Nov 14 06:40:07 2025
    The Google Security Blog has a
    new post on just how well the use of Rust is working out for the
    Android project.

    We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction
    in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C and
    C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on software
    delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and
    spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also
    the faster one.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1046397/
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