Fuchsia Running on Google’s Nest Hub

> ...given Google’s goal to make the replacement entirely seamless, can you actually tell the difference?

Yes. The difference is that now we can clearly see that Fuchsia runs faster than the Linux-based CastOS one. 4 - 0 on all tests. This will continue as Fuchsia spreads onto more Google products.

However, this "Fuchsia expert" cannot see the difference that this is the case and resorts to splitting hairs and damage control to downplay this. The whole point of this to Google is to make it look like nothing has changed except that it now runs faster than before.

> At this point, there’s no reason to get excited about Fuchsia running on your Nest Hub, as really, there are no differences in functionality or performance that are meaningful.

It's been admitted. They're actually scared of this and now they realise that Fuchsia isn't going to somehow get scraped since its already running Flutter and is already in production via an update and the users can't tell the difference other than it being much faster.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27273778