Google programming language scorecard: How C, C++, Dart, Rust, Go rate for Fuchsia
Summary
While Google hasnt yet detailed its intentions for Fuchsia, there has been plenty of speculation that it plans to replace Android and Chrome OS with it in the near future. A new policy document that engineers are discussing on Y Combinators Hacker News evaluates popular programming languages C, C++, Dart, Rust, and Go that the Fuchsia project "uses and supports for production software on the target device" – essentially the key languages that Fuchsia is written in. The Google-built Dart language is supported for end-developers targeting non-drivers and the source tree for user interfaces and programs that dont run indefinitely. Google notes, "The Fuchsia Platform Source Tree has had positive implementation experience using Rust" but it has opted not to support it for end-developers because none of its current end-developers uses it and its not a widely used language. "The Zircon kernel is built using a restricted set of technologies that have established industry track records of being used in production operating systems," Google states.