Mastodawn

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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Spore Nov 15

@whitequark Tbh I'm even more impressed by the "-20% effort reviewing and -75% rollbacks" numbers. That directly translates to time saved producing _every line of new code_.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧

@endospore oh yes for sure. I just expect people to be much less sympathetic to "Google can churn out more code more safely" these days, for very good reasons (and it does depend even more on who your programmers are and how they're trained and which environment they're in, so IMO it probably translates less to others)