Google Security blog: Scaling Rust Adoption Through Training

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I work in the Android Security team. In case you haven't seen it yet, we published s blog post last week about how we have scaled up the Rust adoption in Android and Google:

I hope the post will be interesting for people here! We explain that we wrote s new Rust course because we needed classroom training which covers more than the standard library.

We have been training more than 500 Google engineers in 2023, partly via a vendor, Immunant, we work with for this. We have been able to do 2-3 classes per month this year and I hope to keep up this pace going forward since the interest is enormous. As an example, I recently scheduled a new in-person class in the Zurich office and it was completely full in less than 25 minutes!

The blog post is also a big Thank You to the 200+ people from all over the world who have helped shape the class! :pray: The course is continuously evolving and improving thanks to the contributions of you all. I'm talking bug fixes, translations, new content, as well as actually teaching the class... thank you!

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I've written about the course before here — it's all free and available online: Welcome to Comprehensive Rust 🦀 - Comprehensive Rust 🦀

It's available in several languages thanks to a large set of in-house and volunteer translators. We built the mdbook translation infrastructure ourselves for this:

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I'm happy to answer any questions people might have about how we run the training at Google.

Others are welcome to use the training as well, as has already happened:

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The course is split into four major parts:

This used to be the full course and which we called called Comprehensive Rust. However, then we became more ambitious and wrote more material... :smile:

  • Rust in Android: a half-day course on using Rust for Android platform development. We also show interoperability with C, C++, and Java here. I would like to expand the CXX section here since it's super important for our Android engineers.
  • Bare-Metal Rust: a full day about using Rust to write firmware in no_std environments. I saw a presentation yesterday where @steveklabnik used some of the material:
  • Concurrency in Rust: another full day about fearless concurrency. This covers both threads and the new async/await syntax.

We'll cover Wasm in the future — and other topics, depending on what people come up with!

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