Apple's Swift programming language, first released in 2014 for Apple's own platforms, is now pushing to add official support for Android.

The Android Open Source Project began using Rust for new Android code in 2021. Linux kernel developers are also now putting in place the parts for Rust to be a second language to C in the kernel.

Memory safety vulnerabilities in Android have been more than halved – a milestone that coincides with Google's switch from C and C++ to the memory-safe programming language, Rust.

In fact, support for the Rust programming language was first introduced in Android 12 as a memory-safe alternative to C/C++. “As we noted in the original announcement, our goal is not to convert ...