Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O

Hi, I&#x27;m the author of Yazi, and I was pleasantly surprised to come across it while browsing Hacker News. I&#x27;m really excited!!<p>If you&#x27;re interested in the topics of concurrency, performance, and io_uring discussed in this thread, you can take a look at my new article where I provide a detailed explanation of &quot;Why is Yazi Fast?&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sxyazi&#x2F;yazi&#x2F;issues&#x2F;143">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sxyazi&#x2F;yazi&#x2F;issues&#x2F;143</a>

Is asyncio over engineering for this line of work? How much concurrency is really needed here and couldn&#x27;t it have been addressed by threads instead?

I&#x27;ve tried using LF in the past, but it didn&#x27;t stick. Will definitely give this a go, as I&#x27;m trying to move to an pure terminal workflow as closely as possible.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gokcehan&#x2F;lf">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gokcehan&#x2F;lf</a>

How does it compare to ranger, besides not being written in Python?

It looks pretty cool! A nice feature of nnn is that you can set it up to `cd on quit`, meaning when you navigate to a different folder and then quit the program, your original shell navigates to that folder. Is that possible in Yazi?

Io_uring capable? That&#x27;d be cool.<p>&quot;async Io&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean a ton to me, other than hopefully not blocking. It&#x27;d be cool to have a great well integrated terminal file manager that uses high performance io_uring.<p>That said, I have a hard time figuring out when &amp; where I&#x27;d want to use terminal file managers. I like the idea, but the flexibility of the shell is so unparalleled.

How does it compare to nnn?

Awesome project. Will try it. I can see how it can be useful and fun to use it in remote ssh sessions. When DOS was a thing I just used Norton Commander. But with linux the state of existing file managers made me get used to working in plain command line. Yazi seems like a stride in a good direction.

After using it for brief while, I&#x27;d say that I like it. It will not replace may daily driver (Midnight Commander), but it&#x27;s good for fast preview&#x2F;rename&#x2F;delete actions.

In 1991 dos navigator had an integrated file manager and editor like no other console file manager has: you could alt-tab and copy&#x2F;paste from editors into shell commands interactively.<p>In 2023 I still need two extra terminals for vim and for bash. And text selection is mouse-only.