I built a macOS FTP client entirely in Rust — no Electron, no webview

Hi dev.to 👋

I'm building gmacFTP — a dual-pane FTP/FTPS/SFTP client for macOS, written entirely in Rust. The UI runs on Slint with a GPU-accelerated FemtoVG renderer on top of wgpu/Metal. No Electron. No Tauri. No webview. Just a real native macOS app that moves your files.

This is an early development preview (currently v0.0.14), and I'm actively looking for Mac users who work with websites, hosting, NAS devices or remote servers to test it and give honest feedback.

Why?

I wanted something with the familiar dual-pane workflow — like Classic FTP or FileZilla — but smaller, more private, and without paying for a full file-management suite. Most cross-platform FTP clients are either Electron-based (heavy), closed-source, or bloated with features I don't need.