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If you believe Android will be killed soon, sure. I do not.

Android sits at the heart of their mass surveillance network. Rust experiments in the kernel? Seems like quite a stretch between the two to me.

I'd find more comfort in the "others" that you mentioned, although I don't know who they are.

Saying Android is bad is irrelevant. It’s an important project for Google.

> 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...

> I'd find more comfort in the "others" that you mentioned, although I don't know who they are.

Go, for example, or gRPC, or tons of other stuff.