I actually used Yazi a while back. And it's definitely >100x more robust and production-ready than what I iterated for ~3 hours :). And I have no doubt that it is probably way faster.

The only problem for me is that it's not how I use a file manager. I learned to have two parallel windows when moving files, even before I learned how to use a terminal. That's why Midnight Commander was feeling so great. Until the day that I wanted to eliminate my usage of function keys and was tired of maintaining a config file. Some may say I "overkilled" it just to get rid of a config file..

Tried yazi this week and it indeed feels nice, currently trying to maybe move over from Total Commander to yet to have same file manager across OSes.

Some aspects are still not completely ironed out, though. For example, today I discovered that there's no reliable exit hook and plugins have to override hotkeys and resort to various hacks. I had to patch a session saving extension so it kills mpv-based music preview plugin after yazi quits with "q". Kinda rough experience, but at least manageable with plugins in Lua.

My first impression is not great. Several clicks in the docs - no screenshots to see how it looks like. The very first thing advertised on their GitHub - some "#1 coding agent". And again - no screenshots. Some flashing unpleasant video. "Written in Rust", which is becoming a meme, like if a user should care.

Maybe it's a good file manager but, imo, authors completely failed to advertise it right.

yazi is great, I’ve had it around for a while… integrates well with neovim and other shell tools.