Is this going to be Google's official alternative to Java on Android, as it tries to avoid paying potential future royalties to Oracle? At least as it stands, Google has already lost all of the Android copyright lawsuits with Oracle, unless the Supreme Court says otherwise soon.
Rust would have still been better suited for something like Android native apps, embedded Android (Brillo or whatever they're calling it lately), and Chrome OS, though, especially with Android's security updates problem. At least Rust would have minimized the number of bugs that have to be patched by smartphone and IoT device makers.
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