Google today announced a grant of $1 million to the Rust Foundation, meant to help improve the interoperability between Rust and C++ code.
The internet giant 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.
Rust's interoperability with Android and C++ has improved as well, courtesy of multiple tools, and the adoption of the programming language has accelerated, Google says.
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.
The company says, it is aggregating and publishing audits for Rust crates used in open source Google projects.
The support for Google has allowed the Rust Foundation to launch a new 'Interop' initiative, to make it easier for interested organizations to invest in Rust.
The first task of this new initiative will be drafting a scope of work proposal that will be discussed amongst the Rust Project member organizations.
The Rust Foundation will likely recommend hiring Interop Initiative engineers and allocating resources towards improving interoperability, building system integrations, using artificial intelligence to migrate code from C++ to Rust, or a combination of these.
This Cyber News was published on www.securityweek.com. Publication date: Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:43:03 +0000