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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by pjc50 on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @05:42AM (#43100693)
It looks like WPF but isn't. Sibling comment suggests sui generis, which explains the tiny size and lack of dependencies. This does make it blindingly fast but makes the keymappings different from what you'd normally expect. Haven't tested annoying cases e.g. two monitors with different DPI.

edit: report of poor CJK support https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43100494 ; Windows file system encoding is annoying because it's UTF-16.

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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by regularfry on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:12AM (#43102353)
This is always, always the tradeoff with custom UIs. The edge cases eat you alive.
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Re:File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern... by whartung on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:12AM (#43103706)
I'm sorry, as I don't know.

I mean, I don't even know what you use to write "windows" applications anymore.

But are the stock frameworks that slow to justify rewriting the toolkit? I am under the impression that writing GUI toolkits was Hard.

Are there plans to make this cross platform?

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