> The US kills off Huawei’s access to Google Android and TSMC. Almost completely killing their consumer business.
One the other hand this is good for consumers. For a few years we used to make fun of HarmonyOS being a knockoff of Android, but we have now reached a point where they are due to cut Android compatibility out. They have a new polyglot UI stack that seems quite performant. Basically we now have a 3rd big smartphone mobile operating system that is about to hit global markets.
However a few years ago Huawei started locking their bootloaders, so I have to wonder how much of the UI stack is actually going to be open source.
I don't know too much about it but it seems to have some similarities to react native. Raycast changed my opinion on react native based apps on macos, and I think linux could benefit from such a thing, although I have only little hope that ArkUI will run on vanilla Linux.
Are you saying that HarmonyOS Next is actually based on the microkernel architecture?
EDIT: I just looked it up, that's awesome. It's pretty amazing that everyone was bashing Huawei and Harmony for so long, but they finally managed to pull it off.
Do you have any reference that breaks down the system architecture into more details than whats in the wikipedia article?
One the other hand this is good for consumers. For a few years we used to make fun of HarmonyOS being a knockoff of Android, but we have now reached a point where they are due to cut Android compatibility out. They have a new polyglot UI stack that seems quite performant. Basically we now have a 3rd big smartphone mobile operating system that is about to hit global markets.
However a few years ago Huawei started locking their bootloaders, so I have to wonder how much of the UI stack is actually going to be open source.
I don't know too much about it but it seems to have some similarities to react native. Raycast changed my opinion on react native based apps on macos, and I think linux could benefit from such a thing, although I have only little hope that ArkUI will run on vanilla Linux.