Under-the-hood breakdown of Huawei’s “Pure HarmonyOS” SDK for engineers and architects. For the past decade, mobile operating system architecture has been dominated by two paradigms: Android’s JVM-based, garbage-collected model, and iOS’s Darwin/Mach kernel with Swift/Objective-C. Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT introduces a third path. Often referred to as “Pure HarmonyOS,” this iteration completely drops AOSP (Android Open Source Project) compatibility. It is a microkernel-based, distributed op...