The Fuchsia project values transparency with our community. We are sharing our roadmap to give our community insight into the projects that are being actively explored by Fuchsia teams.
The projects listed in this roadmap are subject to change and could be modified based on a change in priorities.
While this list of projects is not exhaustive, it provides a high-level overview of active projects that inform the way that we’re currently thinking about Fuchsia.
The Fuchsia Interface Definition Language (FIDL) is a language for defining protocols that are typically used over channels.
The FIDL team is actively exploring the following projects:
Currently, there are two FIDL binding implementations, high-level C++ bindings (HLCPP) and low-level C++ bindings (LLCPP). The FIDL team is exploring a solution that augments the LLCPP API surface to allow the use of high-level domain objects wherever low-level domain objects are currently used.
This project helps Fuchsia evolve its APIs through a platform versioning strategy, which involves annotating FIDL elements with version ranges and providing tooling to use a FIDL API at a user-specified version.
The FIDL team is working to revamp the syntax for the FIDL language to help developers understand when changes to a FIDL definition break downstream code.
The Process Framework team is actively exploring how to migrate Fuchsia libraries and applications from fuchsia.io to fuchsia.io2 in order to increase type safety and client reliability.
The Connectivity team is actively exploring how to migrate existing Fuchsia drivers and clients from fuchsia.hardware.ethernet to fuchsia.hardware.network in order to improve network performance.
Components v2 is Fuchsia’s component architecture that replaces Components v1.
The Component Framework team is actively exploring the following projects:
The goal of the Component Framework is to define Fuchsia’s units of software execution as components, which are singular abstractions throughout the Fuchsia system.
In keeping with this goal, the Component Framework team is exploring ways to migrate those dependent on Components v1 to Components v2, including Netstack. In Netstack, the migration would allow for capability routing and a shift to the Fuchsia Testing Framework from Netemul Runner.
The Driver Framework team is exploring how to use Components v2 to represent drivers as components, so that drivers can interact with the rest of Fuchsia in a uniform way.
The following projects are under consideration by several different Fuchsia teams:
Teams are evaluating potential improvements that could be made to MinFS and VFS, including generating a system for benchmarking and implementing paging within the VFS layer.
Multiple teams are collaborating to explore more inclusive handling of user input events on workstations that are running Fuchsia.
