Bringing Rust to the Pixel Baseband

This blog post describes Google Pixel’s effort to improve modem firmware security by replacing a C-based DNS parser with a memory-safe Rust implementation (hickory-proto), detailing no_std support, build/link integration (including using rustc, building core/alloc/compiler_builtins, handling FFI and panic/allocator integration), code-size tradeoffs, and lessons learned for deploying Rust in a constrained embedded modem environment.