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If it's dead, why is it moving so much? https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log

by laxd 1y ago

SV_BubbleTime 1y ago
As of writing this, last commit 45 seconds ago. On the other hand, if you scan the names, it’s like 5 of the same people. I agree, can’t say “dead” but it is a Google project so it’s like being born with a terminal condition.
- afavour 1y ago
  Right now it’s looking like 6-7 commits per hour… it’s not nothing
- surajrmal 1y ago
  It's far more active than redox and it's actually running on real consumer devices. There are more than a hundred monthly active committers on the repo you were looking at, and that's not the only repo fuchsia has. Calling it dead or prone to dying is simply not based on any objective reality.
  - stevefan1999 1y ago
    Okay, I take that back. Maybe I shouldn't say it is dead, but it is more on life support, where there is no new features being developed. Simply put, it is dead to me not that the project ceased to function, but dead to me in the sense that it is out of relevancy, just like Hong Kong.
    - surajrmal 1y ago
      What are the 100+ daily commits doing if not adding new features? Google is not spending any effort marketing the roadmap for the project, but it's very much still alive and in active development. There are RFCs published fairly often about technical designs for various problems being solved and you can see lots of technical discussions happening via code review. Some new things that I can think of off the top of my head: * More complete support for linux emulation via starnix. * Support for system power management * Many internal platform improvements including a completely overhauled logging system that uses shared memory rather than sockets Most project happenings are not that interesting to the average person because operating system improvements are generally boring, at least at the layers fuchsia primarily focuses on. If you've worked in the OS space, a lot of things fuchsia is doing is really cool though.

If it's dead, why is it moving so much? https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log

by laxd 1y ago

If it's dead, why is it moving so much? https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+log

SV_BubbleTime 1y ago

As of writing this, last commit 45 seconds ago. On the other hand, if you scan the names, it’s like 5 of the same people. I agree, can’t say “dead” but it is a Google project so it’s like being born with a terminal condition.

afavour 1y ago
Right now it’s looking like 6-7 commits per hour… it’s not nothing
surajrmal 1y ago
It's far more active than redox and it's actually running on real consumer devices. There are more than a hundred monthly active committers on the repo you were looking at, and that's not the only repo fuchsia has. Calling it dead or prone to dying is simply not based on any objective reality.
- stevefan1999 1y ago
  Okay, I take that back. Maybe I shouldn't say it is dead, but it is more on life support, where there is no new features being developed. Simply put, it is dead to me not that the project ceased to function, but dead to me in the sense that it is out of relevancy, just like Hong Kong.
  - surajrmal 1y ago
    What are the 100+ daily commits doing if not adding new features? Google is not spending any effort marketing the roadmap for the project, but it's very much still alive and in active development. There are RFCs published fairly often about technical designs for various problems being solved and you can see lots of technical discussions happening via code review. Some new things that I can think of off the top of my head: * More complete support for linux emulation via starnix. * Support for system power management * Many internal platform improvements including a completely overhauled logging system that uses shared memory rather than sockets Most project happenings are not that interesting to the average person because operating system improvements are generally boring, at least at the layers fuchsia primarily focuses on. If you've worked in the OS space, a lot of things fuchsia is doing is really cool though.