Rust in Android: move fast and fix things (Google Security Blog)

Date:
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:41:27 +0000

Description:
The Google Security Blog has a
new post on just how well the use of Rust is working out for the
Android project. 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 software
delivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and
spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also
the faster one.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1046397/


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