Google’s “Painful To Maintain” Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust
Android’s long-standing C Binder IPC driver is set to retire after its Rust rewrite was upstreamed in Linux 6.18. The change is a concrete, high-impact Rust-in-the-kernel transition: Binder is a central Android IPC path, and the old implementation is scheduled to disappear during the Linux 7.4 cycle rather than merely coexist indefinitely.
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