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Asserting that a team is collapsing with no evidence will get downvotes. This work is funded by Google and I believe others. So that’s a positive signal toward
by steveklabnik 2y ago
Asserting that a team is collapsing with no evidence will get downvotes.
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.
- yazzku 2y agoGoogle funding is a positive signal? https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/
- steveklabnik 2y agoThis link is about consumer products, not about technical projects. If you believe Android will be killed soon, sure. I do not.
- yazzku 2y agoAndroid 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.
- steveklabnik 2y agoSaying 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-android.html https://security.googleblog.com/2023/10/bare-metal-rust-in-a...
- arp242 2y ago> 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.