Isn't the author a Dropbox employee? Not sure if he's still at Dropbox but I believe he's one of the first employees.

That was the joke, newhouseb used to be in charge of the sync team at Dropbox :)

For those using Nim: how is the compile speed?

Very fast. I can bootstrap the compiler in under a minute. Compilation times are further reduced while developing thanks to incremental compilation.

Sounds great! What about debugging? I understand that Nim compiles to C/C++ so I am curious if I can use Xcode on a Mac and Visual Studio on Windows to debug the generated C/C++ code.

Is this on Mac or Windows? Tried this on a Mac? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202584

One bug I found is that open tracking does not seem to be working.

Maybe a way to submit feedback right from the app would be useful.

The product works well for consumer use cases. However, when it comes to business use their technology isn't there yet. The upcoming Project Infinite will however be a step forward.

This is a limitation of OneDrive indeed as it doesn't support delta sync.

Dropbox is not a sandboxed app on macOS.

Based on the replies here it looks like most people are fine with the way things are now. Maybe this is the reason why we haven't seen any big innovations in this space in the last years?

I am new to InfluxDB but I am interested in using it for some desktop app analytics. Are there any resources that you would recommend I start with? Maybe some from your own experience? How hard was for you to start using it for desktop app analytics?

Logging datapoints into influx is pretty straightforward. For example, logging every time your app is started, adding a tag for the platform, the region, logging datapoints whenever some important settings are toggled, etc.

Once you have this data, set up grafana and build some graphs to query it. Grafana has a graphical query builder, and internally it's essentially a sql-like. There's good tutorials in the influx/grafana docs for all that.