14 DAY TRIAL // According to a report from AndroidPolice, Google is currently working on implementing support for apps written in the Swift programming language to its upcoming Fuchsia OS.
The report says that a new pull request was created recently by a Google employee in Swift's GitHub repository to add support for Apple's programming language to Fuchsia OS, thus allowing apps written in Swift to run on the forthcoming operating system, which uses a new microkernel called "Zircon."
This is great news for both communities of developers, as it opens new windows of opportunities for a lot of developers out there. It also comes as good news for users who will be able to run more apps on Fuchsia OS, which is currently under heavy development over at Google.
At the time of writing, various developers involved with the project are discussing over at GitHub if the new pull request submitted by Google to add Swift compiler support to Fuchsia OS needs to be split into several smaller pull requests or not because it would make reviewing code changes a lot easier in the future.
Fuchsia OS will also support apps written in Google's Dart language
Google currently uses an SDK (Software Development Kit) called Flutter to write apps and the user interfaces for its Fuchsia OS, which should be compatible with the company's Linux-based Android mobile operating system, as well as Apple's iOS. Flutter SDK uses Google's Dart programming language to compile apps.
Swift is used over at Apple to compile apps for the iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS operating systems. We don't know what exactly Google plans to do with Fuchsia OS, but rumors say it could come as a replacement for both Chrome OS and Android in a single, unified operating system for Chromebooks, smartphones, tablets, and smartwatches.