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If you can now run your development tools on Haiku, what would it take to make Haiku a server platform for running your server-side applications?

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Haiku is a single-user system, so effectively any privilege escalation gets you root. That's enough right there for me to keep it off a server.

Yes, while we need to fix the privilege issues and add proper user segmentation, we don't ever intend to aim at being a server OS.

Isn’t the definition of privilege escalation going from non-root to root or did you mean that any RCE on an application gets you root.

Nit picking comment aside, I wonder if the fact that it is single-user was one of the reasons Apple did not go with it.

On a multi-user system, you could have one non-root user gain privileges granted to another non-root user, which I think would still be considered a privilege escalation; e.g. before the escalation, I only have access to my own home directory, but afterwards, I have access to both my own and yours.

Hopefully not, it's better they focus on doing one thing well.

We only have plans for a desktop OS.

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