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My understanding is that if you want to write an app to run under Android then it must be memory safe because it must fall under an even broader kind of safety i.e. that it respects the restraints of its environment and cannot escape from the environment - which would be much harder to enforce if the programming language is not memory safe.

Maybe. Certainly Java and/or Kotlin are preferred. That said, applications are allowed to have native C/C++ libraries … which weakens/defeats the memory-safe advantages (https://developer.android.com/studio/projects/add-native-code). I think the main aspect of application safety in regard to memory is enforced by the OS ( https://source.android.com/docs/security/features ) — each app is run under a unique UID and is effectively isolated with resource availability managed via SELinux MACs …