ONGOING DE VELOPMENT
There continue to be significant developments on the Rust front. In addition to newer language requirements and subsystem support in Linux 6.7, upstream is currently discussing a big change to the Android “Binder” IPC mechanism under the topic “Setting up Binder for the future”. In addition to rewriting the core of Binder in Rust, the proposal is to leverage this rewrite to reduce overall complexity, shorten the size of “thousand line functions”, and enhance the overall security story. The authors have “left the binderfs filesystem component in C. Rewriting it in Rust would be a large amount of work and requires a lot of bindings to the file system interfaces.”