| # Simple |
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| Fuchsia is a modern, open source operating system designed to power a diverse |
| ecosystem of hardware and software. Fuchsia makes it easy for product creators |
| to build and maintain fleets of secure, high performing devices over long time |
| horizons. |
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| ## Fuchsia prioritizes clarity and minimalism in its architecture and design |
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| **Fuchsia strives to be easy to understand and easy to maintain** |
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| Fuchsia provides the core foundations of an operating system—like hardware |
| access, resource management, and software abstraction—in a coherent way, |
| creating a robust, stable platform for products. |
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| ## Bring your own runtime |
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| **Fuchsia Interface Definition Language ([FIDL][glossary.FIDL]) allows diverse clients and |
| services to interoperate** |
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| Fuchsia is highly extensible: developers are free to use their application |
| runtime and programming language of choice. Software from different runtimes |
| can integrate together to form a cohesive experience. |
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| ## Binary stable drivers |
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| **[Fuchsia's Driver Framework][fuchsia-driver-framework] makes it simple to maintain hardware support over |
| long term system updates** |
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| Stable ABIs make it possible for the operating system, device drivers, and |
| product software to remain compatible over longer time horizons. This makes it |
| easy to scale an open ecosystem of hardware—without forking the operating |
| system. |
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| [glossary.FIDL]: /docs/glossary/README.md#FIDL |
| [fuchsia-driver-framework]: /docs/development/drivers/concepts/fdf.md |
