For me, it’s been interesting, especially after switching to a flip phone, I’ve managed to make a bunch Web port for KaiOS like baldi basics and etc I guess I came back to haiku because I feel like gave up too quickly when trying to work with C++ so this time I’m gonna try to do it out of my own capability with no AI
How has your life been in 2026 and do you have any early New Year’s resolutions for 2027?
Lost my job this year. Not really interesting, but job is job. Plan to find something at least a little interesting for me.
Is it Luanti on that phone?
Yes, it is luanti on it I have Minecraft Java on the flip phone too, but I’m still working on it. Also I’m sorry to hear about what happened with the job.
Welcome back,happy to hear that you want to give C++ a true chance with your own brain.
It can be a bit frustrating at the beginning,but once you understand the basics,it’s actually a quite nice language in my opinion.
Feel free to ask here or on the IRC if you’re stuck with anything,there are always helpful people,no need for the slop machine.
Before I started with C++ for Haiku,I also tried to build own KaiOS apps.
With the technologies I already knew from web development,that was quite easy for me.
I had a native app for the Searx search engine almost ready and usable.
Unfortunately with every update KaiOS brought in more non-deletable Google crap so that it became just as bad as Android.
Due to that,I lost interest in it and switched back to a degoogled Android phone (that I use as few as possible,smartphones are just awful nowadays).
Anyway,to answer your actual question: Life has been good for me in 2026.
I took a few months of break from Haiku development in summer,but now I’m back and already got some commits merged again.
In 2027 I plan to stay active and continue working on Haiku and further improving my C++ skills which are still rather basic,so that I can only take on the easier tasks currently.
Well good new KaiOS 4.0 no longer has all the Google software besides Google maps and the Google search engine most of it is just KaiOS native software but I would definitely love to try your app on my KaiOS phone also I’m glad that your life has been great in 2026
As for google-free phones, there is Huawei’s HarmonyOS Next. I’d like to try it out one day.
ignoring politics its been normal. honestly i hate it when i use youtube and see someone saying 2026 is the best year because of gta 6 or some shows that came out (yes, really). i mean what happend in march? you forgot about khamenei? epstein?? its like ukraine war all over again. first few months they did a thing and they gave up (maybe cause im not from europe. since alot of you are european you would feel effects of the ukraine war)
only good thing is political situation in india is slowly improving. maybe i can finally buy a bible without getting a weird look
Besides the work burnout and Brazilian politics-related anxiety, this year is great: me and my wife just became homeowners!
I’m glad to be (slowly) getting involved with Haiku after 20+ years of lurking, and I plan to start diving into C++ next year. But mostly I want to focus on my family, start actually gardening, bird watching, transitioning…
Here it’s work burn-out (or close to that, I guess), French politics-related anxiety, and also becoming an homeowner (with some additional anxiety). Not the best year, but I hope some things in that list eventually become better.
should i learn c or c++ for haiku? i want to porgramme tio
Haiku is written mainly in C++.
If you want to learn from inside Haiku, you can try the Learning to Program with Haiku book which is available for free here: Releases · theclue/programming-with-haiku · GitHub
If you want to contribute to Haiku or make some truly native application,I really recommend learning C++ as Haiku is primarily written in C++ and all relevant system libraries are C++,too.
There are bindings of the Haiku API to other languages such as Python,but they’re rather experimental and incomplete.
C++ is really the way to go on Haiku,and once you’ve learnt the basics,it’s not even that scary.
Haiku has some nice system libraries that make your life a lot easier compared to only the C++ standard functions (think BString vs const char* for example).
My Searx app was open-source on NotABug,a non-profit git hosting platform that collapsed under the DDoS by the AI scraper bots.
Here’s the repository site on the Internet Archive:
The homepage of https://notabug.org states that git clones over SSH should still work,but I wasn’t successful with that.
I may have a local copy somewhere on one of my computers,but it’s been a few years since I last looked at that project,so I currently don’t know where to look.
Anyway,good to know that KaiOS turned into something usable again.
I’ll try updating my Nokia 8110 soon and see if it’s better now.
There really needs to be a alternative to the Google+Apple duopoly again,it doesn’t even need to be great,it only needs to exist and contain less spyware.
And regarding Huawei,they still sell only phones with EMUI 15 here in Germany (at least on Huaweis own website),which is still based on Android.
