Re:Fuchsia: a new operating system
by mtgx on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:04PM
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Looks like it's written in C++. Regardless of how "clean" the code is right now, it's only a matter of time because it becomes roughly as bad as any other OS written in C++ in terms of vulnerabilities found in it per million lines of code.
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Android and ChromeOS also have several components written in C++, yet the majority of userspace is only available to Java or Web applications.
On modern OSes, that aren't plain UNIX clones, C and C++ are being pushed down the stack just to provide some hardware abstraction layer, with everything else being done in more safer, productive, languages.