Google engineers on Wednesday posted an initial “request for comments” set of patches that re-implement Android’s Binder code within the Linux kernel in the Rust programming language rather than C.
Binder remains a critical piece of Android’s software stack and for increasing the robustness and security, Google is pursuing a rewrite of the C code in Rust. Binder is responsible for inter-process communication (IPC) and other tasks on Android while replacing it with memory-safe Rust code should be a big step-up for system security.
Rust is everywhere.
Interesting that its getting rewritten in rust… It has its origins on BeOS and at Palm later.
So will the next cool language be called WD-40?