You want some calculation? Run calc and do the calculation, do you save so much time by replacing the "run calc" step with "open launcher" that it's worth adding more software to your setup?

> Raycast is an application launcher and productivity software developed for macOS and by Raycast Technologies Ltd. It offers fast access to applications, dictionaries, files, text snippets, clipboard, and more.[2] Raycast is an alternative to the macOS's built-in Spotlight function, with a richer interface and the option to install extensions, providing additional ways to display varied content.[3]

Raycast also runs on Windows now, albeit in beta.

Other Linux launchers with extensibility:

KRunner: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner

Albert: https://albertlauncher.github.io/

The most impressive part is probably your age, because this isn't an easy project even for senior devs!

I haven't tried it yet, but I can't wait to find some time for that.

I've researched applications like this for Linux quite extensively and I think you might find the following tips of interest: - For the slow extension startup issue you mentioned, consider Deno as a runtime as it has a better sandbox and is faster than Node overall. There may be some compatibility issues, but if I remember correctly most stuff is handled by the special Raycast extension libraries which you implement manually anyway. - I'd consider Numbat [0] for replacing the calculator implementation you have now. As far as I can tell, it should have feature parity with SoulverCore and it's also written in Rust, so interfacing with it should be much easier and won't require the FFI work you're doing now. - Project Gauntlet [1] is another project which has gotten quite close to implementing a full-featured Raycast alternative and might be worth taking inspiration from. It would certainly be very cool if you can make the UI rendering native at some point (although I guess Rust isn't perfect for native UI at the moment [2])

Keep up the good work!

[0]: https://github.com/sharkdp/numbat

[1]: https://github.com/project-gauntlet/gauntlet

[2]: https://areweguiyet.com/

That said, Linux app launchers are even worse, so I applaud any attempt to improve that situation.

I have something to say about the (future? didn't find it in the readme) file search feature.

Similar to how fluent search can defer to the everything.exe search index, maybe this app can defer to the fsearch search index, which already has lots of users.

It will save effort and also onboard fsearch users(like me) easily.