Homegrown code spotted in the wild
Google’s Fuchsia operating system has started winging its way to real-life devices, with owners of the company’s 2018 Nest Hub the first to get the upgrade. As first reported by 9to5Google, the OS upgrade replaces the previous Linux-based Cast OS but doesn’t change the underlying experience. As we learned in 2018, Google built its smart display software using its Flutter framework. Flutter allows developers to create native apps that happily run across multiple platforms without the need for any OS-specific tweaks. In practice, this meant Google could switch out Nest Hub’s operating system without having to maintain two codebases or rewrite its smart display software from scratch.
