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> With Google's eventual transition to Fuschia OS

I still have yet to see even the most remotely reliable source that indicates Fuschia is actually going to replace Android.

Reminds me of when people were so absolutely sure that Android and ChromeOS were going to be merged.

Never happened.

I really wish people would stop repeating hare brained tech blog gossip and speculation as confirmed roadmaps.

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> I still have yet to see even the most remotely reliable source that indicates Fuschia is actually going to replace Android.

Let’s come back in at least 8 years or a decade and we will see if ‘Fuchsia’ actually replaces Android and even ChromeOS then.

I won’t be surprised if they do, given that is where they are heading.

Maybe some Gerrit commits will help,

https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/fuchsia

Also in case you missed, Android apps now run on ChromeOS.

Code gets shared between projects all the time. Nothing in there specifically says that Fuchsia will replace Android.

In case you had problems comprehending it the first time, ChromeOS and Android were not *merged.*

The rumor has been around since 2015.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9639950/google-combining...

Running ones' apps on another OS is not merging the two.

The ChromeOS/Android merger claims are still unsubstantiated. Pretty sure you'd find a fair number of AOSP/Android commits in the ChromeOS repos.

Still not convinced there's any actual evidence of Fuchsia replacing Android here.

that's how rumors work, what rumormongers considered merging of the two OSes, were in fact attempts to make chrome os able to run Android apps, and that's exactly what happend.

In other words, rumors are started because people imagined cross-code commits to be something more than it really was.

Believe what makes you happy.

"RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia"

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/rfcs/0...

Again, nothing there specifically puts weight into the argument that "Fuchsia is replacing Android."

And also, Fuchsia's license is more permissive than Android's.

That is exactly the problem. Fuchsia's license is more free only for developers in the short term, as lacks provisions to force developers to keep it free, in the end this will significantly reduce users' freedom. If Linux never had copyleft, it would never have had this success.

Lets put it this way, GCC is already kicked out of Android NDK, just like it has been from Apple platforms, and the Linux kernel is the last GPL piece standing on Android.

Meanwhile, Fuchsia is actually slowly testing the waters in production.

https://techlog360.com/fuchsia-os-on-first-generation-nest-h...

It is no accident that Project Treble follows a similar architecture to Fuchsia drivers.

Fuchsia's license being more permissive than Android is exactly the end goal.

It might not come tomorrow, but it will come.

>Maybe some Gerrit commits will help

These commits don't show that they're replacing Linux with Fuchsia, they show that they haven't killed Fuchsia.

Indeed,

"RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia"

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/rfcs/0...

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