Fuchsia

Fuchsia is an open-source operating system developed by Google that runs on its own Zircon microkernel.

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Fuchsia is an open-source operating system developed by Google. Instead of the Linux kernel, it is built on a microkernel called Zircon, and its code first appeared publicly in 2016.

It first shipped in 2021 on Google's Nest Hub smart display. Zircon is Fuchsia's core kernel and handles only a minimal set of functions such as process and memory management.

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…migrations: agents are moving C and C++ code to memory-safe Rust, including more than 800,000 lines for the Zircon kernel of Google's Fuchsia operating system.


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