robinm@programming.devtoLearning Rust and Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Hot takes on the state of Rust v C/C++ for safety (mastodon cross post)English
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3 months agoThis post from 2022 was very interesting:
There are approximately 1.5 million total lines of Rust code in AOSP across new functionality and components […] These are low-level components that require a systems language which otherwise would have been implemented in C++.
To date, there have been zero memory safety vulnerabilities discovered in Android’s Rust code.
https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html
You got me in the first 3 quarters, not gonna lie!