Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Posted Dec 5, 2022 20:09 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog) by pawel44
Parent article: Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

There are a number of Google products that feel very incomplete and half-assed (and not the right half either). My pet theory is that they are on-boarding projects to sink new hire teeth on before they're shuttled off to somewhere more "useful".

Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Posted Dec 6, 2022 0:06 UTC (Tue) by atnot (guest, #124910) [Link] (1 responses)

It is kind of the opposite. Google has in the past, out of fear of missing out on the next big thing, heavily internally incentivized "launching" new "products". To the point of it being the only real way of receiving promotions.

It's not that they don't have the skills to make good products. It's just that you get further by launching more bad products into the shredder instead.

Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 (Google security blog)

Posted Dec 6, 2022 2:41 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Unfortunately, one of the worst is now a flagship product in the main lineup (Google Chat). FWIW, I also consider GMail to bottom-of-the-barrel these days. The HTML view for "slow internet" is *way* faster than the standard interface and all I go there to do is change filter settings.