Fuchsia Workstation
I'm not sure people realize just how much money Google has thus far sunk into Fuchsia for (AFAICT) very little in return. It was in the <i>billions</i>... <i>years ago</i>.<p>I don't know if this is still the case but the mission was <i>absolutely</i> to replace Android. Many at Google believe Android to be unsalvageable on two fronts: drivers and the general ecosystem.<p>It has been pitched internally at various products and (AFAIK) only found traction thus far on Nest hubs. It was heavily pushed for Chromecast but I guess nothing came of that.<p>I'm not an OS expert by any means but I am unconvinced about the viability of a microkernel architecture beyond theory. Security is an often-cited issue with context switching between user and kernel space.