r/Fuchsia • u/000CuriousBunny000 • 2d ago

Fuchsia Migration

In the announcement of Gemini 4 Argon, Google revealed that specialized autonomous Argon agents are being deployed to migrate over 800,000 lines of C/C++ code in Fuchsia OS’s Zircon microkernel to memory-safe Rust.

source: https://www.unite.ai/google-announces-gemini-4-argon-frontier-model-for-coding-cyber-defense/?hl=en-GB#:\~:text=Google%20said%20Argon%20agents%20are%20also%20migrating,and%20review%20before%20rolling%20out%20to%20production.

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u/secretunlock 2d ago

It seems fuchsia will be used as a hypervisor. But other than google homes is there any known use of it anywhere?

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u/000CuriousBunny000 2d ago

i personally think google tv will get fuchsia, that is why they haven't launched a new version since a while

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u/RedgeQc 2d ago

I'm not sure why Google doesn't promote it. I don't think they mention it at I/O at all. They poured billions and years into this thing, only to power Google Homes devices. Absurd.

u/BaobabBill 2d ago

Direct link: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-4-argon/#:~:text=Argon%20agents%20are%20working%20on%20migrating%20C/C%2B%2B%20codebases%20to%20Rust%20across%20Google%20%E2%80%94%20scaling%20from%20tens%20of%20thousands%20of%20lines%20in%20core%20libraries%20like%20re2%2C%20libgav1%20up%20to%20800K%2B%20lines%20for%20the%20Fuchsia%20Zircon%20kernel

u/CurbedLarry 2d ago

800,000 lines?!? The Redox kernel is under 40,000 lines

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u/Llamas1115 1d ago

Presumably they're migrating more than just the kernel

u/tremor_chris 2d ago

Does the new Google Home speaker use Fuchsia?