alt Hacker NewsInteresting to see a mention of Fuchsia on a big Google announcement. Is the project still truly alive? Are the ambitions still as grand? Is the team as stacked as it used to be?
Also, a link to the rust root of Zircon in case anyone else was interested: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/main/z...
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They got heavily hit in the January 2023 layoff cycle.
Had the same thought. On the wikipedia, it only mentions Fuschia used on the Google Nest Hub, which probably means it's used on a decent number of devices, but would think it was such a great OS, they would have used it for something like the upcoming GoogleBook.
It obviously is pretty low key on the public relations front, but it's also very active as a project and I think it would be weird to look at their commit rate and conclude that the project is dead. If Fuchsia is dead then 99% of major open source projects are dead by the same standards.
Some of their smart devices are using it. They've been focusing on GoogleOS (merging Android + ChromeOS) for a while but when that's done I guess they may adopt some of Fuschia's work. But I doubt if there will ever be scaled efforts to replace the entire Kernel stacks, even with the frontier models it is going to be very hard.