Interview: Fuchsia’s past, present, and future, as told by ex-director
9to5google.com"But I actually think, 10 years from now, everyone in the world is going to be trying to figure out how [best] to use Fuchsia. I think there’s gonna be some serious competitive advantages that using Fuchsia is going to give companies, and they’re going to need to figure out how they’re going to adopt it. That’s where I think [Fuchsia] will be in about 10 years."
- Chris McKillop.
Google are also making Fuchsia compatible with the ADB tool for developers at the moment. (https://9to5google.com/2022/08/26/fuchsia-adb-proposal/) (https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/c/fuchsia/+/715977/)
And just finished their Fuchsia rollout for Nest Hub Max, with the rollout for the entry-level Nest Hubs completed last year. (https://9to5google.com/2022/08/24/nest-hub-max-fuchsia-rollo...).
I like the part just above that:
I think there’s a small chance that everything that Fuchsia has done ends up being inside the Linux kernel. They’re trying! They’re actually doing things now, which is great. That would be an awesome outcome, because it’s really about the features we were trying to build.
I’m not a big believer in NIH [not invented here] or that kind of thinking, but I do feel people become complacent. Linux had “won,” and so it was very easy to be complacent. When you have new things come along and show that new ideas are possible, then other people adopt those new ideas. I think that’s awesome. That’s always a possibility.
I think the problem with Fuchsia is that it is just too much of a Google-only project. Samsung has basically only contributed F2FS, and that is presumably so that they can sell their flash hardware to Google. Other than that, few, if any, major companies are hacking on Fuchsia. Compared to dozens on Linux. One of Linux's biggest strengths is that it has been a big tent that balances the needs of different vendors (who are often in competition) in a mostly fair manner.
If anything I believe this casts more doubts than certainties around fuchsia
Why is that?
“There’s one guy on the [Fuchsia] team who has a history of leaving a company and then spending the time after he’s left the company to transcribe his brain into GitHub. Because that’s the one thing — it’s in his head, and if he puts it on GitHub, it’s his forever.”
Public repositories? Who is this/this would be interesting reading.
> We didn’t put speaker cables – we put an HDMI cable for a product that was mostly about speakers, and we got destroyed over it.
Yeah, that was the problem with the Nexus Q, not the fact that it was an overpriced product built for a problem only Andy Rubin had.