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Comment by mitjak | Hacker News Reader

I'm not sold on Fuchsia. The UI harks back a little too much to Java native look-alike widgets which always fell in the uncanny valley for me.

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I want to be sold on Fuchsia/want it to succeed because of security. If it succeeds the UI will change a bunch of times, and there will be many UIs.

Very happy to be corrected, but it seems to be the best hope since Midori was canned, and Fuchsia has the great advantage of being open source. By the way, I've casually looked for but not yet found a comparison of Midori and Fuchsia approaches based on what is known about each, maybe following structure of posts in http://joeduffyblog.com/2015/11/03/blogging-about-midori/ ... I would love to read that!

> the great advantage of being open source

In a name only, like Chromium and many other FAANG projects.

This is probably off-topic, but AFAIK “the uncanny valley” refers specifically to artificial representations of humans looking “too much but not quite enough” like real humans. I’m not sure how UI elements (which don’t typically depict humans) would fall into it.

Same concept. If a UI is completely different you'll know you need to learn a whole new way things work. If a UI is close to something you're used to, then you'll trip over every single difference.

It's exactly the same concept.

Almost lifelike humanoids look cold, eerie or sickly.

Half-assed UI re-implementations give me the same impression - an underlying eerie perception that the program is sick somehow.

I think you're confusing fuchsia and flutter. Fuchsia is a new OS while flutter is it's native UI. I don't think "uncanny" is applicable here.

Oh you're right, thanks for the correction.

I always thought the current UI was designed to test out the core frameworks rather than something they would ship to consumers/users.

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