Rust goes 'bare metal': 3 key mobile security benefits

Another milestone in the software industry's move toward safer programming languages was marked last week with Google's announcement that it was extending use of Rust into "bare metal" Android environments.

Google has been moving native Android code from C++ to Rust, which the company says has resulted in fewer security vulnerabilities. Most of that code runs in Linux. This move is about extending Rust beyond the Linux kernel.

Andrew Walbran, with the Android Rust team, wrote in the Google Security …

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