>mainly because android is multiplatform and rust, by it's nature, is only available for what it's built for Android is one platform: android. I thought rust w

>mainly because android is multiplatform and rust, by it's nature, is only available for what it's built for Android is one platform: android. I thought rust worked across multiple operating systems. >Rust doesn't have a GC so it'd (likely) have a lower memory consumption and could possibly be lighter on the CPU. So what? I have never used G.C. >Native compilation helps mainly with startup time and memory consumption. It's not exactly great for runtime performance as it takes away some key optimizations. That is fair I suppose I think the main benefit of rust/c++/ndk on android is that I can just port desktop programs and I don't have to learn android's java/kotlin and sdk.