Fuchsia overview

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Post by farmerbb » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:04 PM UTC

Fuchsia overview
fuchsia.dev

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by matchbok » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:43 PM UTC

Another Google project that will end up being abandoned. Flutter, Dart, messaging, etc.

They need to just fix Android.

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by jpm_sd » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

Sounds a bit like a modern, open approach to the problems that were solved by QNX. Excited to see how it evolves!

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by clumsysmurf » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:47 PM UTC

matchbok wrote: post #2

Another Google project that will end up being abandoned. Flutter, Dart, messaging, etc. They need to just fix Android.

Maybe they will fix Android by replacing it with Fuchsia :P I think the problems with Android run so deep, it can't just be "fixed".

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by cryptoz » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC

matchbok wrote: post #2

Another Google project that will end up being abandoned. Flutter, Dart, messaging, etc. They need to just fix Android.

I have a strong feeling that Fuchsia will not be abandoned. I can't put my finger on it, but Google's approach and tone around Fuchsia feels really different from how they talked about / marketed Reader, or even Wave, or other things they shut down.

I'm an Android developer learning Flutter and Dart out of both curiosity and an gamble that it will likely be a faster-improving way to make cross-platform apps than other approaches (like Kotlin + Swift, or React Native, or the others)

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by Animats » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC

jpm_sd wrote: post #3

Sounds a bit like a modern, open approach to the problems that were solved by QNX. Excited to see how it evolves!

Not really open. If you submit code, you grant a license to Google to use it in non-proprietary code.[1] So, at some point, once users and developers are locked in, Google can make later versions closed and proprietary enough to stop clones.

Like they did to Android with Google Play Services.

[1] https://cla.developers.google.com/about/google-individual

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by falcor84 » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:49 PM UTC

matchbok wrote: post #2

Another Google project that will end up being abandoned. Flutter, Dart, messaging, etc. They need to just fix Android.

Both Flutter and Dart had new preview releases just this month

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by rstat1 » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:49 PM UTC

matchbok wrote: post #2

Another Google project that will end up being abandoned. Flutter, Dart, messaging, etc. They need to just fix Android.

I'd hardly consider projects (ie Flutter and Dart) that both had releases in the last week to be "abandoned".

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by gman83 » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:50 PM UTC

Sounds like Google's version of Darwin.

Re: Fuchsia overview

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Post by kgraves » Sat, May 30, 2020, 8:50 PM UTC

matchbok wrote: post #2

Another Google project that will end up being abandoned. Flutter, Dart, messaging, etc. They need to just fix Android.

> Another Google project that will end up being abandoned.

Do you have any sort of evidence for this statement or is this pure speculation?