Between OSX, AirDrop works very well. I have sent >10GB files between Macs, quite quick as well.
I have never send a 10TB file so I wouldn't know. None of my drives are that large yet :)
Partially out of my annoyance with this I implemented a port of Magic Wormhole in Go that fully interoperates with the official python version: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william
I chose not to copy the features of magic wormhole because it seemed to me (at the time) to be very complicated and lacking in features crucial to myself (namely restarting transfers [1], sending folders without zipping them).
This has been to my benefit, I think, because I can iterate on croc quickly without having to conform to the wormhole spec and I've since added features still not available in wormhole (like restarting transfers [1], and ipv6 support [2]).
That being said, I really like magic wormhole and consider it my inspiration. And I'm glad that you ported it to Go!
In any case, I encourage everyone to setup their own relay. Its easy. Make sure ports 9009-9014 are open and then run `croc relay`.
Connecting to your relay is as easy as `croc --relay ADDRESS:9009 send X`. And if you add the `--remember` flag you only have to tell it which relay to use once.
Just curious: pun intended?
As I mentioned in another thread installing Magic Wormhole is _easy_, just "brew install magic-wormhole" or "sudo apt-get install magic-wormhole" (or distro equivalent). Windows might be tricky but don't see how croc does it much better. I hadn't heard of Scoop but seems like you'd need to install _that_ first (which has its own dependencies). That said I haven't used Windows in many many years, maybe Scoop is the standard nowadays like Homebrew is for Mac? In which case I'd give a point to croc.
Also, with a Go app you could just share/distribute the binary, but then you also need to know where to put it. And you could do that with Magic Wormhole as well.
Or a step better like using something like PyInstaller (wonder why author hasn't done that?)..
I agree installation for magic wormhole is easy for Mac/Linux, but I think its not easy on Windows. Windows is very common (77% of the market share for desktops [1]) so I wanted to keep croc easy to install for Windows.
In fact, if you are just receiving a file on Windows, all you have to do is download the binary from releases [2], unzip it, and double click on the binary - no terminal experience required. (Sending a file does require using a terminal, but all CLI apps have that hurdle...).
[1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
I use MWH often for sending stuff like URL's, passwords, API keys... having to create a file for that is quite annoying (and remembering to delete it afterwards).
"brew install magic-wormhole" or "sudo apt-get install magic-wormhole" is easy enough and I don't hang around with people who use Windows. ;)
Resumable file transfers sound like a great feature though. Not sure it's implementable with MWH the way it now works.
Tab completion is something I'll miss from MWH (I'm already converted!) but I can live with it, and my non-technical friends aren't even aware of the concept.
Edit: magic wormhole is awesome! Thanks! :D
Provided of course that you have a wifi card that supports active monitor mode.. and you are root on your machine.
It _imitates_ the AirDrop UI, but is not compatible.
Use case is you open up snapdrop.net on both devices (nearby? same wifi?) and you can send files between, but I believe it all goes through a central server. Great for sending a few photos from phone to laptop or linux device when AirDrop isn't an option.