[happyguy43]

Don’t hold your breath. The zircon API isn’t innovative in any modern sense. Additionally it’s bloated and not clean like L4. It’s just in house IP for Google.

(HN won’t let me directly reply to the comment below so here it is:

Nothing in zircon doesn’t already exist on Linux or any other modern kernel. Additionally it has bloat, like 3 distinct IPC mechanisms.

Even further, if it ends up being any technical person’s main driving OS it will surely sport a POSIX API and at that point it’s just another implementation of POSIX with similar a security model.)

[sebe]

Fuchsia docs says POSIX lite and Web runtime, under Backwards compatibility. More info at https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/HEAD/book.md#zircon-... You can fire up the fuchsia in qemu, as it requires hardware graphics, you can't run the desktop, but you can have multiple shell open. I've had a play and it has vim and sql_shell and a bare bones top.

[vesak]

You think the lack of technical innovation is what makes products fail? Seems to me that it's actually the opposite that's true.

[happyguy43]

Never said it was going to fail. I just don’t expect it to be more appropriate as a hacker’s OS than OpenBSD or Linux.

[solarkraft]

This is interesting: I thought they had taken a lot of care to implement very clean concepts.

[abdulla]

Could you explain what you mean? I'd like to understand your point of view.