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This is eerily similar to fman, which was posted here a few weeks ago

https://fman.io/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13764060

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I was about to ask if this was some form of re-release.

fman is a cross-platform application made with PyQt. I doubt if it will achieve the native macOS experience someday. And I think the difference is really important.

fman author here. Congrats on the launch. Sublime Text is cross-platform and is great on macOS. I don't see why fman shouldn't be.

I would say people who truly care about 100% macOS may choose Marta, people who care about cross-platform and a Python-based plugin API will choose fman.

Thank you! :)

Well, the problem is that Sublime Text is the only GUI cross-platform application with the native behavior I know, so it's more like an exception. And it shows that making portable tools right is not that simple.

I don't think we are the direct competitors. fman is a completely another project with its own strong and weak points. I tried fman and didn't like it because of numerous reasons, but it's my own opinion.

Of course :) - to each their own. Good luck!

Actually Yan, I remember you signing up for fman's closed alpha! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I guess :)

The development of Marta started the long before I knew about fman, so it's not any kind of imitation. Actually, in the beginning, I also thought about making the cross-platform file manager, but I quickly realized that the approach with the existing GUI libraries just won't work (and still think so).

I tried the closed alpha of fman (and also the number of other file managers) because of curiosity. I naively hoped that someone has already done what I need. ;)

And your project is done with Cocoa/Obj-C/Swift?

Yes, it's Cocoa/Swift.

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