I remember looking at it a good long time ago. They didn’t have release packages for me to play with so I told myself that I’d check it out later when they are ready. It looks like they released an alpha version an hour ago - hence this is on HN again.
It is a welcome concept. We have blurred the lines between strictly local files and all the cloud storage options these days. I personally maintain those boundaries and almost never mount cloud storage on my Mac, but my wife(as an academic) deals with Dropbox,iCloud drive, Google Drive and whatever Microsoft calls theirs, because the people she works with shares files through them and collaborate with reviews and such. If a solution like this can mask the vendor specific connection hiccups and quirks and provide a transparent file system that appears local but may be backed by $x cloud storage, that would be a nice boost to her workflow.
The key is the usability of such a tool. If the latencies are so high that it feels slower than Finder, then its chances are slim.
It is a welcome concept. We have blurred the lines between strictly local files and all the cloud storage options these days. I personally maintain those boundaries and almost never mount cloud storage on my Mac, but my wife(as an academic) deals with Dropbox,iCloud drive, Google Drive and whatever Microsoft calls theirs, because the people she works with shares files through them and collaborate with reviews and such. If a solution like this can mask the vendor specific connection hiccups and quirks and provide a transparent file system that appears local but may be backed by $x cloud storage, that would be a nice boost to her workflow.
The key is the usability of such a tool. If the latencies are so high that it feels slower than Finder, then its chances are slim.