this article is a bit tough... feels like a marketing piece for some Google report.
did I read that wrong or was this whole analysis based on percentages... like what does 76% -> 24% drop in memory related bugs mean in terms of nominal bugs or nominal bugs / kloc
also, it mostly credited memory safe languages but then also just threw this out from the Google report
> Based on what we've learned, it's become clear that we do not need to throw away or rewrite all our existing memory-unsafe code
tl;dr android may be producing less memory-related vulnerabilities and it's not exactly clear how
did I read that wrong or was this whole analysis based on percentages... like what does 76% -> 24% drop in memory related bugs mean in terms of nominal bugs or nominal bugs / kloc
also, it mostly credited memory safe languages but then also just threw this out from the Google report
> Based on what we've learned, it's become clear that we do not need to throw away or rewrite all our existing memory-unsafe code
tl;dr android may be producing less memory-related vulnerabilities and it's not exactly clear how