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Google's Fuchsia OS Appears ... on a Nest Hub

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 26 2021, @03:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the to-be-superseded-by-manysia dept.

takyon writes:

Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub

Google's long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub.

Google has told us that as of today, an update is beginning to roll out to owners of the first-generation Nest Hub, first released in 2018. For all intents and purposes, this update will not change any of the functionality of the Nest Hub, but under the hood, the smart display will be running Fuchsia OS instead of the Linux-based "Cast OS" it used before. In fact, your experience with the Nest Hub should be essentially identical. This is possible because Google's smart display experience is built with Flutter, which is designed to consistently bring apps to multiple platforms, Fuchsia included.

We've been tracking the development of Fuchsia since 2016, starting from an ambitious experimental UI, to running on Google's many internal testing devices for Fuchsia, ranging the full gamut of Google's smart home and Chromebook lineup. In the time since then, the OS has gradually progressed and recently even begun a steady release schedule.

Google Fuchsia.

Also at The Verge and Notebookcheck.

Previously:

Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia
Google's Not-So-Secret New OS
Google Fuchsia UI Previewed
Google to Add Swift Language Support to Fuchsia OS
Google's Fuchsia OS Adds Emulator for Debian Linux Applications
Google's Cross-Platform Flutter SDK Moves Out of Beta With Release Preview 1
Google Hopes to Replace Android with Fuschia in Five Years
Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World
Google Hires a 14-Year Apple Veteran to Bring Fuchsia to Market

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday May 27 2021, @07:44PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Thursday May 27 2021, @07:44PM (#1139417)

    *Why* would you propose that a C++ programmer should move to a different language, to the point that you might believe the only reason he wouldn't would be inertia? Moving for the sake of moving is obviously absurd, so there must a reason to clearly demonstrate that not only is [hot new language] objectively superior to C++, but by an extremely substantial degree.

    I completely agree. The thing is, using existing 40 years old solutions suggests you have nothing "objectively superior" to existing ones. So, any general argument you're making for C++ is an argument you're making against Fuchsia.

    That is, if Fuchsia is made from 40 years old tech, why not just use 40 years old tech?

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