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		apitman 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust in Android: move fast and fix things They've been trying to strangle the NDK for years. You can't even make an app without a ton of glue code on the JVM.

pjmlp 27 days ago [–]

True, NDK was never intended to make apps, only for games and as helper for native methods, since it was introduced in Android 2.1.

The point is about the official support for using Rust exactly for the same use cases.

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