Google Begins Allowing Rust Code For Developing Android

[Luke_Wolf]

As long rust is possible to use only with cargo and meson or cmake and make do not support it natively rust is really messy to use and hard to integrate wiyth other stuff.

On the contrary that's what makes it incredibly easy to use, and CMake barely supports anything natively, Distros ship a billion helper files for a reason.

[bug77]

As long rust is possible to use only with cargo and meson or cmake and make do not support it natively rust is really messy to use and hard to integrate wiyth other stuff.

I've used java/maven together with makefiles. If that works, I really don't see why you couldn't make a few calls to cargo work.

[bug77]

Ada did not have this: https://enet4.github.io/rust-tropes/...-strike-force/


Not a day goes by that I don't see some or other Rust propaganda somewhere.

That's just the thing: it's not propaganda if the language actually fixes hard problems for developers and developers like working with it.

[kloczek]

I've used java/maven together with makefiles. If that works, I really don't see why you couldn't make a few calls to cargo work.

Can ypu point on some exap;es?

[ahrs]

Can ypu point on some exap;es?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/blob/56fc36ae777029826292c516e2adcd3d13c4235b/Makefile.am

[bug77]

Can ypu point on some exap;es?

Examples about what? How to invoke mvn or javac from a makefile?

[kloczek]

Examples about what? How to invoke mvn or javac from a makefile?

Exactly that.
We are not talking abput vlu whales .. isn't it?

[paulpach]

Ada did not have this: https://enet4.github.io/rust-tropes/...-strike-force/


Not a day goes by that I don't see some or other Rust propaganda somewhere.

This is true. There is a lot of propaganda.

However, there is something to it. Both Google and Microsoft found that 70% of vulnerabilities can be prevented by using a memory-safe language. That is as close as it gets to a security "silver bullet". Love it or hate it, I don't know any other language that can really serve as a memory-safe replacement for C.

[microcode]

A new Bluetooth service is a good place to look. The current one on Android is horrifying, to anyone who has read what's in it.

[jabl]

A new Bluetooth service is a good place to look. The current one on Android is horrifying, to anyone who has read what's in it.

Google is working on a new (the 3rd?) bluetooth stack for android called 'Gabeldorsche', this time (partially) using Rust: https://android.googlesource.com/pla...aster/gd/rust/