obsessed with this article by the Android team. just...

obsessed with this article by the Android team. just looking at the graphs it's like "rust go up, exploits go down" https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html

also holy shit Android has a lot of rust code now

Like 1 Dec 2022 at 18:02 | Open on toot.cat

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Gankra

HOT FUCKING DAMN

1 Dec 2022 at 18:03 | Open on toot.cat

Gankra

for folks who don't know, google specifically has like, the Most Advanced C++ Bug Catching/Mitigation Tools, to the point that they *took over the development of clang*

just using rust instead, even with 'unsafe' parts, completely blew all of that out of the water! holy shit!

1 Dec 2022 at 18:04 | Open on toot.cat

Cassandra Granade

@Gankra "Safety measures make memory-unsafe languages slow." Good fuck, I love that they explicitly call out the whole "Rust is slow" canard.

1 Dec 2022 at 18:06 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

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