"Google Contributes $1 Million to Rust, Says It Prevented Hundreds of Android Vulnerabilities"
Google recently announced a grant of $1 million to the Rust Foundation, meant to help improve the interoperability between Rust and C++ code. Google joined the Rust Foundation in 2021 for the same reason and has adopted the memory-safe programming language across Android and other Google products due to its benefits for addressing memory safety vulnerabilities. Based on historical vulnerability density statistics, Google noted that Rust has proactively prevented hundreds of vulnerabilities from impacting the Android ecosystem. Google also said that Rust’s interoperability with Android and C++ has also improved, courtesy of multiple tools, and the adoption of the programming language has accelerated. However, with most of the progress mainly driven by tools that support a specific project or company, Google wants to invest in and collaborate in areas needed to accelerate the overall adoption of Rust. Google says it is aggregating and publishing audits for Rust crates used in open source Google projects.