Android is part of a colossal change made by the Google company in the idea of making its operating system much better than it is at the moment, and we are talking about a decision that will more than certainly make people happy. Those at Google made the decision to develop certain components of Android using the Rust programming language to improve the security level of the operating system compared to using C++.
Android will have certain important components of it developed using Rust because this programming language offers the possibility to secure much better the memory used by the operating system. Despite the fact that Google will make Android more secure with Rust, there will be no problems on the performance side, they will be at least as good as when using C/C++, and this is extremely good news for us .
Android: Google's Colossal Change for the Better
Android will not have all its components modified by Google to use the Rust programming language instead of C++, and this is because there is no need for such a thing. It is enough for Google to make changes to the components that manage the phone's memory, and this is because there are many vulnerabilities discovered in Android, but also in other operating systems, so everything is solved directly from the source.
Android will have implemented support for the development of applications that are compatible with Rust, and this means that developers will be forced to modify their applications in order to continue offering them. Of course, this is not such bad news, developers being able to offer users much better experiences of using their own applications for Android thanks to the changes made by Google, but everything will happen in time.
Android has been working on solving the problems caused by memory vulnerabilities for a very long time, so it remains to be seen what will be officially revealed.
