It's not Pink and it's not Purple... It's Fuchsia!
As you have probably heard, Google is working on a new operating system. What is it for you ask?… Well we don’t actually know exactly.
A lot of rumors suggest that the Goog is attempting to replace one or more of their operating systems such as android and chrome, however I’m not too sure that is the case.
Chromium seems to be undergoing changes, yes, and even creating more bridges between it and Android, yes, but nothing at this moment suggests a concrete point of Fuchsia OS being the new replacement… at least not yet.
Fuchsia is meant to be light weight at its center, and because of that they’ve opted into NOT using a linux based kernel… Fuchsia is based on a much smaller kernel, “Magenta” – a microkernel based on an older kernel named “LittleKernel”.
If you’re curious, a microkernel is essentially the segmented and sectioned concept of a normal kernel – having the processes broken into separate “pieces” in order to run the servers in their own space.
Personally, this, to me, seems more like a new super lightweight core for things like small IoT (internet of things) builds. I’d like to see a Google version of an arduino or Edison. What is also interesting is that it is in fact using Dart (one of Google’s programming language) as it’s primary language.
You can see everything for yourself and even mess with Fuchsia’s code via github or through the Goog’s source site.
Will we see Fuchsia hit Google’s devices like “Google Home” and their “OnHub Router“? Or maybe they do have some bigger plans for such a small microkernel? Only time will tell.
