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by pjmlp 35 days ago
The next version of it, HarmonyOS NEXT is microkernel based, and they have two new languages of their own.

ArkTS, inspired in Typescript and similar nodejs runtime.

Naturally due to performance problems, they decided to come up with another one, also Typescript inspired, but ahead of time compiled, GC and effects.

It is called Canjgie.

This naturally is a big effort rebooting the whole ecosystem, it only works because Huawei could focus on the Chinese market after losing Android.
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zb3 34 days ago
Ok, but that HarmonyOS NEXT is closed source and Huawei devices don't allow system modifications, right?

There's "OpenHarmony", but the question is whether we can practically run it on Huawei devices..

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pjmlp 34 days ago
Most likely, but that wasn't the point I was answering to.

Open Harmony apparently is Huawei trying their own version of something like AOSP.

Most of the documents seem to only exist in chinese.

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