Do you think Haiku will after 10 years have more than few active members, contributing to kernel development, driver development and bugfixing them ? I am thinking that it will stagnate because of lack of them.
Haiku has been alive and in active development for more than 20 years now,and I don’t think this will change.
Some developers from the beginning have quit and some new contributors appeared and took over the work.
It would be nice to see Haiku development speed up,maybe it will happen some day,maybe not.
I don’t see a reason why Haiku would stagnate,however.
The recent months have brought amazing progress,and that progress can make other people interested in using and contributing to Haiku,too.
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@sbody What exactly is the reason behind this post? No offense, I’m really curious because I can’t see it.
Quite obviously, nobody can answer your question because it’s simply impossible to predict the future (unless you happen to possess a DeLorean car with a flux capacitor of course). And just assuming that the outcome will be negative doesn’t make lot of sense to me either.
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Welp, we had a community member in the past (certain BeShare server comes to mind) that owned a DeLorean. Not sure if he ever got the flux capacitor, though 
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Let’s just wait for the next coming year instead of waiting 10 years 
I’m sure we will see some great progresses. Let’s see what the future can offer…
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Not sure if he ever got the flux capacitor, though
We know he never got it: otherwise, he’ll have jump back from the future to show it!
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Or maybe he just jumped forward, is already enjoying Haiku R1, and sees no reason to come back! 
(I wouldn’t really blame him… :gestures broadly at Earth 2026:)
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Mainly for my own curisity I keep some statistics about Haiku contributions
In 2025 there were 49 contributors to Haiku. This seems not so bad. Remember that a vast majority of open source projects are the work of one single developer.
There have been several new contributors making their first patches (Waddlesplash mentions them in the activity report). Sure, it will take some time before they reach the commit count of people who have been working on Haiku for 25 years, but nevertheless thir contributions are appreciated.
Haikuports stats are also quite good, with 75 contributors this year:
I would say the inflow of devs is not a problem. So the question is: can we get these developers to contribute even more? Do they stay and become long term contributors, or do they move on to other things? If they move, why is that so?
And finally this is not even counting people working on 3rd party apps. Which is where the focus should be at the moment, I think? An OS without apps is a bit boring.
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Or maybe he just jumped forward, is already enjoying Haiku R1
Sounds scientifically even less probable: everyone knows R1 is to Haiku what infinite is to maths.
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thanks for these interesting stats.
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Is that some 90’s game referring to the apocalypse or just actual NOW? I prefer Warzone 2100 if it’s the former…
if Haiku does not fix 1. its security problem 2. its native browser problem, it will never attract the attention of more than a few “crazy“ fans,
don’t expect many developers to ever pay attention to such a fringe operating system
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I mean the security topics are surely important, but I don’t think they actually hold random Joe off from migrating. Random Joe doesn’t care (as he doesn’t understand all that tech stuff anyway). The security problem, if at all, holds back other tech nerds.
As for the browser problem, I’m not sure it is that bad any more. I mean a good bit of process has been made. So, what is missing from your perspective here that is not yet on the road map for near future?
I think this is more a matter of critical mass, than anything else. Maybe just spreading the word in a positive way is all it needs.
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I’ve been trying to spread the word lately, by way of porting my apps to Haiku and advertising that on the homepage. And tech nerds usually have more than one computer (often way more). It’s not the state of the OS that’s keeping me from installing it on more machines.
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