Not sure why the downvoting. It’s a serious question. Who is ensuring that this project has a future and isn’t going to collapse tomorrow?
This work is funded by Google and I believe others. So that’s a positive signal towards maintainability. Regardless of a specific person being involved or not, Google has significant Rust components in Android and a vested interest in all this.
But also on some level, it’s too early for these questions. Stuff is still an experiment. It could all get removed tomorrow. Once it’s closer to being permanent, then “how do we continue to maintain this” becomes a more important question.
If you believe Android will be killed soon, sure. I do not.
I'd find more comfort in the "others" that you mentioned, although I don't know who they are.
> Seems like quite a stretch
It’s not a stretch, they’ve been talking publicly about their increased Rust usage in Android (among others) for years now. Here’s a 2023 post for example https://security.googleblog.com/2023/10/bare-metal-rust-in-a...
Go, for example, or gRPC, or tons of other stuff.
> It’s a serious question.
Is it?
Maybe next time do a tiny bit of looking before asserting unsubstantiated statements and then doubling down calling your own unsubstantiated question "serious". Not a serious way to conduct discourse, just tossing that out there.