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That is just the next step of AIDL and HIDL from Android.

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/aidl

https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/hidl

And it goes back to ideas like DCE and Taligent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environm...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent

Also how XPC works on Apple platforms (IDL here are Objective-C protocols).

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ma...

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The 'Pink' of the phrase "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia" is a reference to Taligent's Pink, and 'Purple' appears [1] to be a reference to 'Project Purple', the effort at Apple that culminated in the release of the iPhone.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/a-mod...

Fidl is the direct evolution of Mojo

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/mojo...

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