Secure by Design: Google’s Perspective on Memory Safety

Google outlines its perspective and whitepaper on memory safety, noting that memory corruption drives a large share of 0-day exploits and advocating a Secure-by-Design transition to memory-safe languages like Rust, Java, and Go. The post details challenges of migrating large C++ codebases, proposes partial memory-safe subsets with hardware support, and highlights investments—including a $1M grant to the Rust Foundation—and results from Android and Chrome that show security and performance gains.