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Re:VSCode-WASM: Implement a first version of a WebShell by rektide on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:20AM (#35773143)
Color me impressed. I have been aware of indexeddb drivers, and I didn't investigate Vs code's driver (looked briefly through the PR but was short on time). I don't know why I don't credit that route enough.

File System Access API just feels way to limited. There's so much missing stuff. No symlinks, no hard links, no xattr. I worry about what the user experience is going to be when the web api has so many limitations.

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Re:VSCode-WASM: Implement a first version of a WebShell by jakear on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:57AM (#35773654)
> There's so much missing stuff. No symlinks, no hard links, no xattr. I worry about what the user experience is going to be

Personally, I've never met a "normal" user who cares about any of those. You can try vscode.dev => explorer => "Open Folder" to see what the experience is like for yourself. I'd be interested to hear of the pain points, though I moved on from the project a while back.

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