| # Overview |
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| Fuchsia is a new open source operating system created at Google |
| that is currently under active development. |
| We are building Fuchsia from the kernel up |
| to meet the needs of today’s growing ecosystem of connected devices. |
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| Fuchsia is still evolving rapidly, |
| but the underlying principles and values of the system |
| have remained relatively constant throughout the project. |
| The core architectural principles guiding Fuchsia’s design and development are: |
| secure, updatable, inclusive, and pragmatic. |
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| ## [Secure](/docs/concepts/principles/secure.md) |
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| All software that runs on Fuchsia receives the least privilege it needs |
| to perform its job, |
| and gains access only to information it needs to know. |
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| ## [Updatable](/docs/concepts/principles/updatable.md) |
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| Much like the web, |
| software on Fuchsia is designed to come and go as needed, |
| and security patches can be pushed to all products on demand. |
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| ## [Inclusive](/docs/concepts/principles/inclusive.md) |
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| Fuchsia is an open source project that currently supports a variety |
| of languages and runtimes, including C++, Web, Rust, Go, Flutter, and Dart. |
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| ## [Pragmatic](/docs/concepts/principles/pragmatic.md) |
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| Fuchsia is not a science experiment, |
| it’s a production-grade operating system that must adhere to fundamentals, |
| like performance. |
