This is unbelievably cool.
It feels a bit like diving into a new fantasy book or TV series; there's so much to explore. Everything's just so radically different from the world you're used to, and every new fact you learn hints at dozens of other systems you don't yet know anything about. Really a fascinating introduction.
Oh my. Is THAT how you pronounce it? How did it manage to get that far from poor old Fuchs? Did it come into english through french? Are you that scared of accidentally cursing?
I am flabbergasted, and fantastically curious! It surely explains why people have been smiling a bit when I have talked about it.
The Android userspace meant you didn't have to publish parts of your rom, now thanks to fuchsia you can keep the whole thing close. We can only hope Google's incompetence kills it.
To answer the obligatory question "but does it run linux?": well, kinda ... it can run ELF binaries, but it only supports the syscalls defined in "posix-lite".
how is this different to zircon
For anyone curious, this is actually a very big deal.
Fuchsia is a sort of secret Google project to redesign the operating system from scratch - with a focus of making multi-device interactions a base primative.
The goal is to make multi-device interactions easier and not dependent on pseudo HTTP initiated sockets/streams.
It’s very exciting and hopefully makes it possible to have all the devices you are working with easily work together. For example, pull up content on your phone, pass it to your TV, interact with it on your keyboard, sync with your smart watch, etc.
The opposite today would be depending on a series of memory issues or depending on browsers or socket/protocols to manage a series of interactions between devices.