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Windows has had a concept of "Shell Namespaces" ¹ ² ³ for about 20 years now that allows developers to add support for interacting with things in the File Explorer that have tree structures but that do not need to part of the OS's official filesystem.

For example, you could make one for FTP, for Zip and other archive types, etc.

I can't seem to find by Googling what the MacOS equivalent is, or if it simply lacks an equivalent altogether.

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  • Not sure whether it makes a difference or not, but the Finder supports FTP and Zip by default. – user1118321 Oct 20 '17 at 05:00
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    @user1118321 Finder doesn't support browsing ZIP files. Archive Utility supports _extracting_ them, but that's something totally different. –  Oct 20 '17 at 05:21
  • @user1118321: I just chose FTP and Zip as the most obvious examples that people would easily understand. – hippietrail Oct 20 '17 at 05:39

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No, there is no direct equivalent to this functionality in macOS.

FUSE can be used to expose remote or virtual filesystems as drives, but it is not a standard component of the operating system.