✧✦Catherine✦✧Nov 14

android's data for rust adoption shows that rust code has ~5000 times fewer memory safety vulnerabilities per MLOC. that's a lot more than i expected, actually! https://security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust-in-android-move-fast-fix-things.html

(you might say that you're better than google's devs, but are you *five thousand times* better? i'd be skeptical.)

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 ...

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@whitequark this one weird trick of not making unsafety be pervasive turns out to work quite well
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@dysfun @whitequark the vulnerabilities aren't in the exciting hot optimized special code, they're in the boring cold no-one-ever-looks-at-it-code, which is why unsafe rust works so well still
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