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by Gigachad 1148 days ago
We have the data now https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-language...

1.5M lines of Rust in Android and not a single memory vulnerability found, including in their unsafe Rust code. They also observe that the number of memory vulnerabilities decreases almost exactly inline with the decreasing use of memory unsafe language in Android.

The Android Rust code is also showing to have less bugs in general than the C/++ code.