Comment by pjmlp
5 years ago
Google has decided to go forward anyway.
Just like Android Linux compiles just fine with clang for the last five years or so, it now makes use of Rust.
https://source.android.com/setup/build/rust/building-rust-mo...
If upstream ever cares to support clang or Rust, that is another matter.
Unless I'm missing something, that link refers to building Android user-mode components in Rust, not kernel components in Rust.
That's correct, but it came after them rebuilding the bluetooth stack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647981