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People are saying Fuchsia is only usable on IoT devices, not much progress, etc. However, not many new operating systems have a Chrome browser [0] on them and
by kgraves 5y ago
People are saying Fuchsia is only usable on IoT devices, not much progress, etc.
However, not many new operating systems have a Chrome browser [0] on them and Fuchsia has this, not many people realise how huge this is let alone on a new from the ground up OS.
So I don't think Fuchsia will be going away, in fact I would say it is coming pretty fast.
Whether you like it or not, this tells me that they are targeting the desktop, laptops and chromebooks next.
[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rg9YgWXLfEo https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rg9YgWXLfEo
- Grazester 5y agoIt's being used in a consumer products (the Nest hub)
- loeg 5y agoIn part this is because it's (very) hard to get the Chrome team to take a new OS port. Google's internal OS probably has some advantage here.
- torginus 5y agoIsn't the point of Chrome's Ozone stuff to add a proper platform interface, so that making ports becomes straightforward?
- hajhatten 5y ago> However, not many new operating systems have a Chrome browser [0] on them and Fuchsia has this, not many people realise how huge this is let alone on a new from the ground up OS. Enlighten me, why does this matter?
- IshKebab 5y agoIt shows how mature Fuchsia is. Chrome is an enormous piece of software that requires a lot of things to run.
- hortense 5y agoModern browsers use an extremely wide range of system APIs: process/IPC/sandboxing, memory, networking/connectivity (e.g. bluetooth), filesystem, GPU, audio, windowing system, device IO (keyboards, webcam), and more I'm sure. I can't think of any other kind of software that come close. If you can run a modern browser it means that your OS is already quite mature.