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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by sansnomme on Saturday June 29, 2019 @09:48AM (#20312554)
For some reason Fuchsia has always reminded me of Windows. Or at least what Windows would have been had it been built from a clean slate in 2019.

The handles etc. have clear Windows analogues and Wire is basically COM.

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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by loeg on Saturday June 29, 2019 @01:44PM (#20313798)
That's probably not a mistake. NT has some really solid design concepts that POSIX missed on.
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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by brachi on Saturday June 29, 2019 @03:39PM (#20314357)
> NT has some really solid design concepts that POSIX missed

Such as...? Genuine question. I was impressed a few years ago when I tried Ubuntu for Windows, but maybe that has nothing to do with the NT design.

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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by ithkuil on Saturday June 29, 2019 @07:30PM (#20315485)
IO completion ports, for example
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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by dodobirdlord on Saturday June 29, 2019 @12:10PM (#20313335)
The wire format seems strongly related to protocol buffers, which is to be expected from a Google project.
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Re:Fuchsia Developers Website by ithkuil on Sunday June 30, 2019 @09:40AM (#20318140)
At Google it's not uncommon to have common code "libraries" actually being separate process exposing a stubby rpc interface (similar to gRPC) over shared memory IPC. It solved several inter-language issues that plagued things like swig and counterintuitively it can also be as fast of even faster than direct cross-language integration.
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