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A comment on RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia. Parent comment

Re:RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia by huibf on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @06:35AM (#28366118)
What matters is having a stable API, not having the code. Nobody needs the code if there's nothing to fix.
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Re:RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia by monocasa on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @06:43AM (#28366165)
And when we have an example of perfect phone APIs that don't need updates and perfectly written drivers to back those APIs then we can start to entertain that idea.
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Re:RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia by rfoo on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @08:13AM (#28366905)
Stable does not mean perfect. It means putting a version number on it, don't fucking change it pointlessly, and decouple it from the other parts of the kernel.
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Re:RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia by monocasa on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @12:20PM (#28369923)
Linux kernel API does have a version number on it...

And this stuff isn't like an http API. I gave examples above about how NT has fallen behind Linux because of their stable API and binary drivers.

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