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

The Google Security Blog has anew post on just how well the use of Rust is working out for theAndroid project.

We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reductionin memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android's C andC++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on softwaredelivery. With Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate andspending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now alsothe faster one.