Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer written in Rust

  • This looks really cool and I am looking forward to use the same file manager on all OSes I am using, but I fail to see the relevance as a Mac OS user. Finder is really good and has the great builtin preview feature, it can connect to clouds just fine etc.

    Only thing from the Roadmap in spacedrive I see, which looks really interesting, is encrypting on the fly using stored keys. A file Manager with built in truecrypt like functionality would be great, let's see how they implement it.

    Workers also sounds nice, I would like to see multithreaded file operations. Maybe they can followup with wildcard operations on the filesystem.

    But in general it feels like they are trying to cram a lot of (already existing) different tools into one. I am not rally seeing the value proposition here.

  • This may sound jealous -- but I'm a bit sick to my stomach seeing a file browser raise $2 million dollars when Haiku OS, one of the most promising and important open source projects of all time in my opinion, can hardly manage $15k a year. I really wish Haiku could get more support.

  • This looks interesting. Their main website is really well done as well. Love the design.