Fuchsia is not Linux
To people which don't understand the overall decision to create another system, I'll talk about at least one benefit to create a system that is not Linux: make software more simple and efficient. Do you really think that Linux is so great? Linux is a bloat system [1], POSIX is not so great as well (do you really read the WHOLE POSIX spec?).<p>It's important standards, it's important sometimes (SOMETIMES) compatibility. But not all this stuff defined in POSIX it's important. POSIX sucks sometimes [2], only GNU can be worse about being bloated [3].<p>Only users which don't touch in code can think that Linux, POSIX and GNU are entities following principles based in simplicity. Linux following Unix guidelines? This only can be a joke of Linus.<p>Creating custom software, maintaining and other stuff on things THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND has a massive cost. As well, the cost to understand complex things, it's even worse.<p>Sometimes it's even more simple re-inventing the wheel than understand why a wheel was build with a fractal design [4].<p>[1] Linux LOC overtime <a href="https://www.linuxcounter.net/statistics/kernel" rel="nofollow">https://www.linuxcounter.net/statistics/kernel</a><p>[2] POSIX has become outdated <a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine...</a><p>[3] Code inflation about /usr/bin/true <a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a417/055105f9b3486c2ae7aec22a7dbd57e1ba3c.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a417/055105f9b3486c2ae7aec2...</a><p>[4] The Linux Programming Interface <a href="https://doc.lagout.org/programmation/unix/The%20Linux%20Programming%20Interface.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://doc.lagout.org/programmation/unix/The%20Linux%20Prog...</a> (that cover of book has a reason and yes: it is what you think)