That looks extremely promising, so most of their hard work getting desktop apps up must have been on the general solution, and translating that over to macOS is much easier? Might even get support for Linux sooner than expected.
I am no dev, so that is hard to answer. Also I am not having internal insights, so the following is my personal opinion or expectation. I am not sure that in general a lot of components can be shared between Windows -> macOS -> Linux other than maybe crypto. On each OS there are different integrations with the local filesystem or dealing with the networking stack, with as example chunking up files for reliable uploads/syncing while ensuring performance with a lot of small files. I’d think this requires to be done per-system.
At the other hand, the team can definitely learn from previous beta’s and we now see an accelerated macOS beta compared to the Windows one. Also I am glad to see an official comitment for a Linux version.
That looks extremely promising, so most of their hard work getting desktop apps up must have been on the general solution, and translating that over to macOS is much easier? Might even get support for Linux sooner than expected.
I am no dev, so that is hard to answer. Also I am not having internal insights, so the following is my personal opinion or expectation. I am not sure that in general a lot of components can be shared between Windows -> macOS -> Linux other than maybe crypto. On each OS there are different integrations with the local filesystem or dealing with the networking stack, with as example chunking up files for reliable uploads/syncing while ensuring performance with a lot of small files. I’d think this requires to be done per-system.
At the other hand, the team can definitely learn from previous beta’s and we now see an accelerated macOS beta compared to the Windows one. Also I am glad to see an official comitment for a Linux version.