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Rust Adoption Drives Android Memory Safety Bugs Below 20% for First Time

Rust Adoption Drives Android Memory Safety Bugs Below 20% for First Time

The Hacker News(4 weeks ago)Updated 4 weeks ago

Google has disclosed that the company's continued adoption of the Rust programming language in Android has resulted in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% for the first...

Google has disclosed that the company's continued adoption of the Rust programming language in Android has resulted in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% for the first time. "We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on

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