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For some reason Fuchsia has always reminded me of Windows. Or at least what Windows would have been had it been built from a clean slate in 2019. The handles e

For some reason Fuchsia has always reminded me of Windows. Or at least what Windows would have been had it been built from a clean slate in 2019. The handles etc. have clear Windows analogues and Wire is basically COM.

dodobirdlord 7y ago
The wire format seems strongly related to protocol buffers, which is to be expected from a Google project.
- ithkuil 7y ago
  At Google it's not uncommon to have common code "libraries" actually being separate process exposing a stubby rpc interface (similar to gRPC) over shared memory IPC. It solved several inter-language issues that plagued things like swig and counterintuitively it can also be as fast of even faster than direct cross-language integration.
loeg 7y ago
That's probably not a mistake. NT has some really solid design concepts that POSIX missed on.
- brachi 7y ago
  > NT has some really solid design concepts that POSIX missed Such as...? Genuine question. I was impressed a few years ago when I tried Ubuntu for Windows, but maybe that has nothing to do with the NT design.
  - ithkuil 7y ago
    IO completion ports, for example