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larsberg
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
scudo has been the default allocator for Android since Android 11, and we are hoping to make it mandatory for the few remaining places that don't use it. Using an allocator without memory protections in 2026 (especially after we have closed nearly all known performance gaps with jemalloc) is really not a great choice.
larsberg
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Actually, it's complicated stuff pulling together two data points: 1) 2/3 of people are confident contributing in 2 months or less 2) And 50% of people are AS PRODUCTIVE IN RUST as they were in their other language within four months

Given that #2 is talking about people who are all professional programmers and where only a small percentage of respondents previously knew Rust, that's pretty amazing to me.
larsberg
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Gah! Typo there. It's over 50% (66.8%) in 2 months. And over 80% in 4 months. The chart is correct, not the text :facepalm:

I'll see about whether I can push an update. Thanks for the catch!
larsberg
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Thanks for all of your work (in addition to that of others) - it really shows! We do encourage people to create minimal repro cases and open bugs whenever possible. And, even more ideally, to consider contributing a PR upstream...
larsberg
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
That's exactly right. Today, the focus is on making it possible to use Rust to write pieces of the Android platform itself.

Certainly, there are some _apps_ on Android today that use Rust (shout-out to my Firefox friends!), but that's not something I'm investing in right now.