Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers

Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by orclev on Thursday March 02, 2017 @02:53PM (#13777596)

Just for some statistics, I just purchased it but the main selling point for me is cross platform. I use Windows/Linux at home and Mac at work, so a tool that works on all of them is a real boon to me. This way I can customize and use a single tool and use it no matter where I am. Same reason I purchased a copy of Sublime Text.

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by zerr on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:51PM (#13778073)

Is it electron based?

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by mherrmann on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:53PM (#13778093)

If you mean fman then no: I thought about this long and hard but startup speed is crucial and Electron just doesn't cut it. It's based on PyQt. I wrote a blog post about this: https://fman.io/blog/picking-technologies-for-a-desktop-app-...

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by Jare on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:00PM (#13778663)

I see the Windows version is a 1MB download and the Mac & Linux are 21MB, so I was surprised to ready Python and Qt are involved. I take it the Windows setup is a downloader?

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by mherrmann on Thursday March 02, 2017 @05:59PM (#13779132)

Yes - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13778676

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by zellyn on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:30PM (#13778415)

Just FYI, Go has a (currently experimental, linux-only) plugin mechanism now. Of course, it's not cross-platform… yet.

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by zerr on Thursday March 02, 2017 @04:39PM (#13778481)

Good to hear that... It would have been even better if it was C++ Qt based.

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by srssays on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:31PM (#13779755)

Congratulations! You exemplify the term "pathological customer"!

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by zerr on Friday March 03, 2017 @02:34AM (#13781315)

Is this a new name for someone who wants to avoid a bloatware?

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Re:Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers by srssays on Friday March 03, 2017 @11:49AM (#13784098)

I can understand why people don't like Electron, but what's wrong with Python?

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