Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++ (Aamir Siddiqui/XDA Developers)

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Aamir Siddiqui / XDA Developers:
Google announces the Android Open Source Project now supports Rust for developing the OS itself, providing more memory safety guarantees than C and C++  —  Android as a complete OS solution involves a lot of moving parts.  Very broadly speaking, these parts are the app ecosystem and then the OS itself.