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yes, I'll try to sum up the article as i understand:

* better process isolation

* stable hw/driver api (this is a huge mistake in linux, agreed)

* less historical craziness(who likes fork()?)

* more micro-kernel

some of the things I personally cannot buy:

* vulkan native. android is not vulkan-native, it provides both opengl es and vulkan, for your choice

* flutter. why bundling and bringing opinions to the system becomes a benefit? it was a major problem with android that you have to interact with java if you want any native ui => I would prefer more ways/languages/bindings to interop with the UI

* fidl ipc. cool, again, why bundling something with the os?

* vDSO. why is even vdso on the slides - vdso is important, but it already with us for a decade.

This article is great because its one of the first that breaks down Fuchsia on a tech level. But at the same time, its not an article that explains all the reasons the fuchsia is better that what google have now.

parent altmind 7 years ago

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