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Huawei is nearly ready to ditch Windows and adopt HarmonyOS as its primary PC operating system. According to Yu Chengdong, who heads the company's consumer business group, the PCs currently being sold by Huawei will be the last to feature Microsoft's "Western" OS. The next batch of Huawei computers will include HarmonyOS Next, the upcoming iteration of the operating system, which is expected to launch by the end of 2024.

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[–] DumbAceDragon 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The operating system will exclusively support its own format of native applications, which, according to the project's page, include a mix of JavaScript (JS), TypeScript, and an optimized compiler designed to speed up the execution of JS code.

They made JS a systems language.