I wrote a small Flutter app recently and rather enjoyed the experience. I'm reluctant to spend more time on the technology, though, since it seems like it has a high chance of dying out. But as I understand it, Fuchsia would have native apps written using Flutter as well, which would be great, so I really hope it does take off.
Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android
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#12Quietly? The entire development has been public, hasn't it?
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#13I am really surprised Microsoft isn't doing something like this. They are losing the OS war.
They've already tried. There's no interest currently for a 3rd also-ran OS, especially from a vendor that would be changing up the toolkit yet again.
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#14This Bloomberg article has several shortcomings. 1. "Android and Chrome OS are built on Linux, a widely used open-source programming language." Here they mix up the Linux kernel with the Java programming language. 2. "Moving from Linux, though, could have upsides for Google. Android’s use of the technology, which is owned by Oracle Corp., is at the center of a lengthy, bitter lawsuit between the two companies. Shifti…
1. No they didn't. They incorrectly used the word language instead of Kernel. Chrome Os is not built with Java.
2. Correct
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#15> "Switching away from Android could provide Google the opportunity to hit the reset button on any mistakes they believe they made a decade ago,". "They might be able to regain some power that they’ve ceded to device manufacturers and telecom carriers."
How making a new OS achive this? What kind of problems Fuchsia could solve when Linux can’t solve?
I personally hope Fuchsia would remain as an experimental project. A new non-GPL OS by a big player like Google is a bad news for hardware dev and enthusiasts from XDA. This will make hardware driver developments more fragmented and closed-source.
Smartphone manufacturers are trying to hide their kernel and device drivers, even they are using Linux. Imagine there are no legal restrictions to hide those.
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#16For those of you who want more information, and especially more accurate information, check out Fuchsia Fridays: https://9to5google.com/guides/fuchsia-friday/
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#17I've been wondering why so many Bloomberg articles have been on the front page recently, maybe in the last 3-6 months. This OP seems like a good example because there has been coverage of Fuchsia from more technical sources for awhile and I doubt the Bloomberg article adds much. Or is the change in frequency of Bloomberg posts just a misperception on my part? I don't have any data.
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#18I am really surprised Microsoft isn't doing something like this. They are losing the OS war.
If Fushia/Flutter gets adopted, it would be a better outcome than MS botched effort with universal desktop/mobile apps. The fragmented tooling and support was like it was made by sales/marketing types rather than engineers.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
no. it's not a rewrite of android, or (at this point) android-compatible in any way. it's a brand new operating system that google is experimenting with.
It will need some form of compatibility to get a foothold in the market, though.
From what I can tell, the compatibility plan is to market flutter/dart as a cross-platform development toolkit for Android and iOS.
Fuchsia won't run android apps, but fuchsia apps will run on Android and iOS.
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#20Quietly? The entire development has been public, hasn't it?
Something can be both quiet and public.