Google’s Fuchsia and Area 120 see significant cuts in layoffs

Ahead of these layoffs, Fuchsia appeared to be on an upward trajectory within Google. After years of being a skunkworks project, the company's from-scratch operating system has grown to be used in the Nest Hub series and is poised to be used in an upcoming device. There are even indications of Google ramping up Fuchsia development internally in recent months.

Considering Google's overall workforce is set to be reduced by around 6%, the Fuchsia team appears to have been targeted more directly by the layoffs than other divisions. It's not yet clear what this may mean for the project going forward.

It doesn't seem like a good idea to heavily cut the workforce of a team building a brand new operating system from scratch that you've only just started putting in consumers' hands, but what do I know?