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I am not a microkernel expert, but why is Zircon better than QNX as used in the final Blackberry handset? QNX appears to already be in every market where Fuchs

by chasil 5y ago

I am not a microkernel expert, but why is Zircon better than QNX as used in the final Blackberry handset? QNX appears to already be in every market where Fuchsia wants to go. Google could have bought Blackberry and used QNX in Android 5, rolling it up to Chromebooks. Why was this not the path they chose?

drivebycomment 5y ago
This seems like a good question, and I also hope someone with good knowledge/experience around this to give some good comparison. I have given only very cursory look into QNX and Fuchsia/Zircon and it seems that one of the main difference is the capabilities-based architecture in Fuchsia. It's a big change in the API/conceptual model, but we'll have to see if that actually translates into a meaningful difference at the application level - e.g. whether it allows building new types of applications, or allows building meaningfully more secure/fast/reliable applications.