I have the horrible feeling that they even specifically start an HTML renderer for that toolbar itself, because the rest of the application appears fairly quickly.
Well, and because you would typically share the code for rendering the file manager contents with the code for displaying the desktop icons.
So, in hopes that they did not rewrite the desktop icons in React, nor now ship two implementations for rendering those icons, I choose to believe that they built a horrible Frankenstein file manager instead. 🫠
They probably reimplemented Explorer as an electron app
I have the horrible feeling that they even specifically start an HTML renderer for that toolbar itself, because the rest of the application appears fairly quickly.
Well, and because you would typically share the code for rendering the file manager contents with the code for displaying the desktop icons.
So, in hopes that they did not rewrite the desktop icons in React, nor now ship two implementations for rendering those icons, I choose to believe that they built a horrible Frankenstein file manager instead. 🫠