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What we loose if Android side wins?

• pjmlp 8y ago
  A Java fork failing to keep up with standard Java, winning on where Microsoft failed (aka Google J++), thus forcing Java library authors to either write two versions or constrain themselves to the common subset. Meanwhile, there are plenty of other Java vendors that are able to create their own Java implementations and play ball with the rest of the eco-system.
  • snaky 8y ago
    Maybe that's not that bad, considering the fraction of Java libraries that used simultaneously in Android and Java ecosystems isn't very large. OTOH if Fuchsia wins, we loose the open source mobile OS, the major one, the only one, with tons of apps and ways to ungoogle.
    • Apocryphon 8y ago
      On the other hand, we'll finally have an empirical resolution to the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate!
      • pjmlp 8y ago
        Intel already did that for us with the Management Engine. And if you squint a bit through how modern Treble drivers work, Google has turned their Linux usage into a kind of micro-kernel OS flavour. https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hidl https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hidl