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Spotlight search on macOS is in general kinda…spotty. Now that we have super fast SSDs it should be instantaneous very reliable. How hard can this be? BeOS seem

Spotlight search on macOS is in general kinda…spotty. Now that we have super fast SSDs it should be instantaneous very reliable. How hard can this be? BeOS seem to have figured it out 30 years ago. Apple missed a chance to fix this once and for all when APFS was developed, but they are fat and happy, no fire in their guts. Craig Ferengi must go.

eastbound 1y ago
What’s infuriating is, `find` and `grep` are snappy, they find everything you need in microseconds per gigabyte, and they have no index! If the macOS or Windows searches were just wrappers for find/grep, it would already be an improvement!
- nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
  IIRC, VSCode packages a rg binary and uses it for search. Probably explains why it's something that works well and works fast.
- const_cast 1y ago
  On KDE systems, we have baloo which forms a filesystem index for universal (spotlight-like) search. It's very, very fast and the ranking algorithm for krunner is quite good. I think commercial software should have no issue matching this.
kergonath 1y ago
> Spotlight search on macOS is in general kinda…spotty. Now that we have super fast SSDs it should be instantaneous very reliable. Which is maddening because back when it was released on Tiger it was great, and on spinning disks.