Given last week’s stories about Rust and the Linux kernel, this almost feels like a pointed message from Google’s devs to the Linux kernel devs.
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2024
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Nit: One engineer at a company saying something is not the same as that whole company saying something. I wish they would just say "Google employee insists..."
Make sense. Firmware is also extra difficult to debug so it's nice to use a language that significantly reduces the amount of debugging you need to do.
I want to see specific examples of serious bugs that rust would catch that clang -Weverything, clazy/clang-tidy and scan-build would not find for C++... because I'm still not convinced it is anywhere near worth learning at all for career/veteran C and C++ folks.
This isn't a complete answer to the question you asked, but it could be: https://security.googleblog.com/2022/12/memory-safe-languages-in-android-13.html
Maybe but at this point any thing google suggests is a signpost to do the opposite