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aff... I understand that this is a good idea, but posting a project in HN without a release, and saying it will have, but have not implemented the cool features at the frontpage, like cloud integration, photos, search, tags, extensions, cloud integration(gdrive,dropbox,etc), key manager, etc... This is the dictionary´s definition of vaporware. Maybe all you want is to attract more developers to the project, but if all big project wannabe start posting in HN... what the heck.

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Yes. Why would I trust all my files to this? Needs to be a lot further along. why is "Rust" a feature? I could care less the implementation language as long as the thing works as advertised.

Rust is a feature because as anything written in rust is subject to one of the smartest typesystems on the planet, designed to make you do the right thing. It's also easier to maintain and refactor than many other languages.

I definitely see it as a feature, but I don't choose software solely based on this.

I thought you were going for satire with your first sentence. Then I read sentences 2 and 3.

Seconded, what a fascinating comment.

How is it fascinating? The compiler forces you to do things the right way, if someone's convinced the compiler that their program is valid it's proof of all the good thing the compiler enforces, which is more than "any other language".

It's also likely that if you're using rust you care about performance and have thought about it while building your application, this is also a feature.

What's fascinating to me is everyone who says written in Rust isn't a feature. It definitely is, and it's going to keep eating C and C++'s lunch in new areas every year.

This is open source software. Perhaps at this phase they're not interested in having you as a user?

You seem to have a lot of expectations & be uninterested in the underlying technology. Open source is about more than "things work as advertised;" it's also about picking good tech & insuring we have open paths to the future we can advance on.

Your belief that "Needs to be a lot further along," applies to who? Yourself? Everyone? This seems like a great pitch to me, at a great time to get onboard.

> what the heck.

Those features are from the future ;-)

hopefully they don't remain in the future.

A release would be good, but there are build instructions

https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive#developer-instal...

Not clear on what the build gets us from the roadmap

https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive/blob/main/docs/p...

After installing it from source, it doesn't appear to be functional. Running from main could be unstable though, so hard to determine if broken vs missing.

As one of the core team has mentioned, they didn't post it themselves, but rather a community member posted it.

It's definitely something that I'll be bookmarking for later though. It's a tool I could see myself using.

This post wasn't made by me or anyone else on the core team, but by a community member. I definitely agree that this post was made too early, as the app is missing a lot of core features as you point out.

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