obsessed with this article by the Android team. just looking at the graphs it's like "rust go up, exploits go down" security.googleblog.com/2022/1

also holy shit Android has a lot of rust code now

for folks who don't know, google specifically has like, the Most Advanced C++ Bug Catching/Mitigation Tools, to the point that they *took over the development of clang*

just using rust instead, even with 'unsafe' parts, completely blew all of that out of the water! holy shit!

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@Gankra I suspect that this was just as unsurprising to the folks who wrote that article as it has been for years to many language security/ergonomics folks, but they had to be nice and couldn't write "I fucking told you so"

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