Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
With Rust development surpassing C++ in the Android platform in 2025, we can start making reliable comparisons.
Rollback rates, code review latency, vulnerability density, and a CVE with a twist.
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It's nice to see the ol' codec sandbox doing its job though.
It's going to turn 10 years old soon :) android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/05/hard...
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A Little Bit of Rust Goes a Long Way with Android's Jeff Vander Stoep
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You may not be rewriting the world in Rust, but if you walk like the Android team, you'll drive down your memory-unsafety vulnerabilities more than 2X below the industry average over time! π
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