There’s been a flurry of vibe coded mail apps for Linux in the last couple of months. Hylki is another one. They all look basically the same too.
They will probably all be abandoned within the year.
They will probably all be abandoned within the year.
Linux really need applications more polished, that’s what they are bringing to the table.
So I had Claude whip up a super fast image browser that had some features I really like from a Mac app I use. It looks better than 90% of Linux apps, is super fast and fits me like a glove.
Of course some of these mail apps will be abandoned, but they also provide an opportunity to make things more attractive on the Linux side and win some users.
Talk about a low bar ;)
But yeah, thanks for reminding me; I've always wanted to make my own file manager and image viewer, since literally every single one out there is garbage. How is nobody able to get such basic programs right is beyond me.
Linux mail clients tend to look how the desktop toolkit look.
What is wrong with how kmail, Geary, Elementary-mail or Evolution look and behave?
Mail client has been a solved problem for decades already.
None.
All of them slowed them to a very painful crawl.
I compared for instance evolution and outlook, evolution has always had much faster searches.
Having said that, having a bit of digital hygiene goes a long way.
This could be a proclamation for ALL vibe coded software. As a matter of fact, I think this is what marks software as "Vibe Coded". It's fun while the vibes last. The first few GitHub issues bring excitement because, "hey! people are actually using my project!". So the author prompts a few bugfixes or features. Then the GitHub issues become unmanageable. The author doesn't really KNOW why things aren't working. They can't find anything in the codebase without grep (this is true for the agents too). After awhile, it's not a good vibe anymore.
Also, I'd like to know what "after a while" means, concretely. Seems to be working out all right for me on the 4 new apps I've started that I wouldn't have time for otherwise, thanks to AI. I'm at 184 revisions in one of the projects and it works fine so far.