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Not if your goal is security. Android is not a particularly secure operating system. The JVM is not treated as a security boundary.
by pcwalton 9y ago
Not if your goal is security. Android is not a particularly secure operating system. The JVM is not treated as a security boundary.
- pjmlp 9y agoWhich is exactly how we got here. If perfect security implies less productivity, security conscious people abide by "good enough" to appeal to the masses.
- pcwalton 9y agoWe were talking about the kernel. The internals of the kernel don't need to "appeal to the masses". Nor do the low-level system libraries. You are trying to argue that C++ for system libraries plus a high-level language for apps is as secure as an all Rust app. This is empirically not true. Virtually the entire security community disagrees with you.