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Re:Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer by troupo on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @07:19AM (#37843096)
> It's the fact that the app is so slow to launch, consumes ridiculous amount of resources, does not take advantage of the hardware, is unstable etc.

You've just described almost any web-based UI ;)

> And then when you're using the app all of the interactions are slow because NodeJS's concurrency is so poor.

Most of the slow interactions come from the web-based UI. I mean, Slack needs 17% CPU to draw an animated emoji. And it's already running in a hyper optimised Chrome: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/1486364312910368769

> Happy to be enlightened with alternatives.

Qt :)

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Re:Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer by shubhamkrm on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:39AM (#37844240)
> Qt

Unfortunately, it’s licensing is not suitable for everyone.

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