Sounds great! What about debugging? I understand that Nim compiles to C/C++ so I am curious if I can use Xcode on a Mac and Visual Studio on Windows to debug the generated C/C++ code.
The product works well for consumer use cases. However, when it comes to business use their technology isn't there yet. The upcoming Project Infinite will however be a step forward.
Based on the replies here it looks like most people are fine with the way things are now. Maybe this is the reason why we haven't seen any big innovations in this space in the last years?
I am new to InfluxDB but I am interested in using it for some desktop app analytics. Are there any resources that you would recommend I start with? Maybe some from your own experience? How hard was for you to start using it for desktop app analytics?
The articles from Chuck Jazdzewski made my day. I sometimes wonder what the early members of the Delphi team are working on today. Thanks for sharing the link!
It reads the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) which contains records for all files and folders. It only does this the first time it runs (or when you manually tell it to rebuild the index). It also uses the NTFS USN journal [1] in order to update changes to its index so that it doesn't need to read the MFT and rebuild the index every time it runs.
That's right. OSXFUSE includes a kernel extension (https://github.com/osxfuse/kext). There is no other technical way to achieve this without a kernel extension on both Windows and OSX.
I believe this is not the case here. In order for the files to start taking space on your drive you would actually need to right click that folder and choose "Save a local copy".