Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> https://www.haiku-os.org/
>
> Does anyone know if Haiku OS;
>
> 1. Shows any sign whatsoever of gaining any traction?
Slim to none. Microsoft owns the desktop, Linux is the de-facto
standard beyond the desktop, Apple owns the high-end of the market.
I see little room in that mix for another OS.
Everything changes, and it's likely that sooner or later a new OS will
come along that'll wow us all.
But with all due respect to the great ideas in the project I don't think
it'll be Haiku OS, mainly because it's a desktop-only OS in a
multi-device world, with little in its underpinnings suggesting it can
be easily adapted to new form factors.
> 2. Is there any point of attempting to compile LiveCode for Haiku OS
> (beyond a spare time project)?
In all honesty I can imagine few activities which could produce a lower ROI.
It might have been different. Haiku OS is the open source fork of
Jean-Louis Gassée's BeOS, at one time the front-runner when Apple was
shopping for a replacement for what we now call Mac Classic. But once
Jobs' NeXT became a candidate, even at its much higher acquisition
price, being a Unix meant a larger supporting ecosystem, a proven
standard calming to developers and investors alike.
It's almost too bad, since BeOS has a lot of great ideas, all the way
down to the metadata-rich file system, arguably well ahead of its time.
But history has spoken, and at this time I see little profit in
deploying apps to Haiku OS.
That said, as a learning exercise studying Haiku OS can be very
fruitful. There really are some great ideas in there.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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