Re:Welcome to Comprehensive Rust
by izacus on Thursday December 22, 2022 @06:40AM
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> Is this “just” a 20% project or is this more significant (like Android one day supporting Rust to develop apps)?
It's very unlikely you'll ever see Android supporting apps written in 100% Rust (just like it doesn't support apps written in 100% C++/C) - the APIs and UI toolkit are exposed and written in Java and you'll need to bridge either way.
Supporting Rust as a native code language to augment existing support for C/C++ via NDK is much more likely.
It's very unlikely you'll ever see Android supporting apps written in 100% Rust (just like it doesn't support apps written in 100% C++/C) - the APIs and UI toolkit are exposed and written in Java and you'll need to bridge either way.
Supporting Rust as a native code language to augment existing support for C/C++ via NDK is much more likely.