Hello devs!
About two months ago, I released the first version of Xplorer and wrote a post about it which makes both of the blog and the reposit...
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Awesome. I will surely check it out
One question: you mentioned you used Rust for backend to use file operations. I am not sure I understand it properly. Does not Typescript support file IO? Node does so perhaps Typescript does too. Also, what is the use of a backend here? I only think of backends as http servers. This question is because of my little experience with professional development.
Thanks!
Backend means not http here..
Instead the the code that do operarions related to file read deletion other files ops written using rust
And http is not the onlyn way to comunicate between programs .. we have IPC mechanisms those are very faster than http for programs running in the same system.
And regarding typescript file reading..
Rust is definitely faster and safer than nodejs so tbey decided for that .
As we will have alot of file ops here..
Hope this answers your quries..
Thanks for the reply. Yes, it does answer my question. Just one thing though: regarding IPC mechanisms, do you mean like MPI and socket-based communication but on the same machine?
It's something like that, basically when user want to operate something, ex opening a folder, the typescript code send a message to the rust code to open that folder return the information of the files inside the folder to the typescript then typescript is in charge to display it on the webview.
Hope this answers your question.
Now all the confusions have been cleared up. Thanks!
Did you know that XYplorer is an existing name for such tool: xyplorer.com/. That application exists since 1997. When I first read your post, I thought of this software.
I didn't know that existed, Xplorer is the name I randomly picked it when trying to thinking about a name of the File Explorer, and suddenly thought that Explorer without "E" is still read as "Explorer", so I picked Xplorer.
Make sense. Was just for information and because I've read your subject too fast 😉 I use then mentionned one since years.
What are you talking about? XYP is not the same as just XP
There are many many brands that differ just in one letter, so your argument doesn't apply
Which argument ? 😉 I was just giving information and said I had read the subject too quickly and mistakenly thought it was the tool I was using. I did not make any judgement or presume anything.
Ah maybe he thought you said I take over the name or smth like that, but yeah, it's completely my own idea of Xplorer name, anyways, thanks tho for letting me know
Then it is obvious that I made the same mistake as you did and read your message to quickly. My apologies
Really glad to hear that Xplorer has just migrated to Tauri. Performance is better than the current UWP app I'm using. Some more adjustments to the UI/UX will make the app dormant and I'd definitely set it as the default explorer.
My primitive benchmark says that Xplorer uses 5% of CPU less than the UWP app (50% less), but 10MB more memory (10% more), as the same folder is opened.
Smashing!!🔥🔥🔥