I Put VS Code, Claude, and a Terminal Inside a File Manager I built using React and Rust — Here's What Happened
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Remember when file managers were just... folders and files? I got tired of switching between Finder, VS Code, Terminal, and ChatGPT every 30 seconds. So I built a file manager that has all of them built in. It's called Xplorer, it's free, and I just shipped the first alpha. The "Why" — File Managers Haven't Changed Since 2005 Think about it. Your code editor got AI autocomplete, your browser got extensions, your terminal got split panes. But your file manager? Still the same gr