Bare-metal Rust in Android

by iamd3vilon 10/9/2023, 6:13:20 PM with 8 comments
  • by kajaktumon 10/9/2023, 11:59:05 PM

    I don't get mailing lists. See this https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-March/478466.htm...

    So where is the patch?

  • by theususon 10/9/2023, 6:58:48 PM

    I found adoption of Rust being slow, but it has started to grow.

  • by az09mugenon 10/9/2023, 10:00:40 PM

    I may have wrong assumptions, but I find it funny they didn't use Golang. Is it not capable of doing the same thing ? Anyway, happy to see rust being adopted for that usage.

  • by frankjron 10/9/2023, 6:32:09 PM

    Is there similar effort from Apple?

  • by 1f60con 10/9/2023, 7:10:51 PM

    Ideally, Android wouldn’t have any security vulnerabilities, but that’s not realistic. Rust won’t prevent every bug (and it’s even possible to cause segmentation faults in an ostensibly safe language like Python), but “better” is still a huge leap forward.

  • by SuaveSteveon 10/9/2023, 7:33:46 PM

    The Doom of programming languages? Rust must be run everywhere with no irony.

  • by ireallywantthaton 10/9/2023, 6:45:38 PM

    Ok, now enable us to let create Android Applications entirely in Rust (including the GUI). Let's get rid of Kotlin/Java monopoly in Android App development. Shall we?