I’ve been looking into this for about a year. This is going to sound crazy right now but I’m saying Fuschia is going to just straight up change computing in the medium term future. I’m expecting it’s first release next week at I/O and right now everyone just thinks it’s the “new Android” but it becomes kind of clear when you read the docs that it’s actually much much more than that.
Things that are interesting about it:
- any device and any workload from IoT to servers.
- totally new security model from the ground up which is how I expect it to be the main driver for business use cases
- new app delivery model which is kind of like a weird mix of the web as you know it currently, native apps and kubernetes.
- seems to be developing an interesting interop story where the goal is that you will also be able to run Android and linux apps on it despite the fact that it’s not Linux and not based on Linux. Everything is custom made from the ground up.
- the development story is also super interesting, all IPC happens over a gRPC like protocol and provides a nice language neutral way to develop for the platform and to integrate with everything else.
Some of the other projects I’ve seen coming out of Google make way more sense in this context too. Flutter for web is a good example which I know is not exactly a crowd favorite here on HN but I’m serious when I say that now might be a good time to go and look at Dart again. It’s actually a really nice modern language if you are coming from JavaScript, Typescript or Java you will be up and running very quickly.
I think this is about to become a hugely disruptive force. If Google manage to not screw this up that is.
For a slightly longer term bet I’d say by the time it hits say v5 it will be the biggest OS / platform in the world by a considerable margin.
Things that are interesting about it:
- any device and any workload from IoT to servers.
- totally new security model from the ground up which is how I expect it to be the main driver for business use cases
- new app delivery model which is kind of like a weird mix of the web as you know it currently, native apps and kubernetes.
- seems to be developing an interesting interop story where the goal is that you will also be able to run Android and linux apps on it despite the fact that it’s not Linux and not based on Linux. Everything is custom made from the ground up.
- the development story is also super interesting, all IPC happens over a gRPC like protocol and provides a nice language neutral way to develop for the platform and to integrate with everything else.
Some of the other projects I’ve seen coming out of Google make way more sense in this context too. Flutter for web is a good example which I know is not exactly a crowd favorite here on HN but I’m serious when I say that now might be a good time to go and look at Dart again. It’s actually a really nice modern language if you are coming from JavaScript, Typescript or Java you will be up and running very quickly.
I think this is about to become a hugely disruptive force. If Google manage to not screw this up that is.
For a slightly longer term bet I’d say by the time it hits say v5 it will be the biggest OS / platform in the world by a considerable margin.