Google is developing an OS called “Fuchsia,” runs on All the Things (Android Police)

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Android Police takes
a look at a new OS from Google. “Enter “Fuchsia.” Google’s own
description for it on the project’s GitHub page is simply, “Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)”. Not very revealing, is it? When you begin to dig deeper into Fuchsia’s documentation, everything starts to make a little more sense.

First, there’s the Magenta
kernel based on the ‘LittleKernel’ project. Just
like with Linux and Android, the Magenta kernel powers the larger Fuchsia
operating system. Magenta is being designed as a competitor to commercial
embedded OSes, such as FreeRTOS or
ThreadX.” Fuchsia
also uses the Flutter user interface, the
Dart programming language, and
Escher, “a renderer that supports light diffusion, soft shadows, and
other visual effects, with OpenGL or Vulkan under the hood“.