Re: watchcode: not written in Nim, but at least for Nim ;)

2019-01-28 Thread federico3
I wrote [https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nim-testrunner](https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nim-testrunner) (testrunner in Nimble) for a similar use.

Re: watchcode: not written in Nim, but at least for Nim ;)

2019-01-27 Thread dom96
This would have been a great opportunity to develop a watchdog-like package for Nim ;)

Re: watchcode: not written in Nim, but at least for Nim ;)

2019-01-27 Thread bluenote
No particular challenge, really. In the end I went for the Python solution because (1) the problem is too trivial to require a serious language, (2) the result is arguably more accessible, (3) was a bit faster to write because the file monitoring libraries in Nim aren't quite as mature. I just w

Re: watchcode: not written in Nim, but at least for Nim ;)

2019-01-27 Thread kaushalmodi
Curious .. what challenge did you face writing that in Nim (assuming that you first attempted writing that in Nim, but didn't work out)?

watchcode: not written in Nim, but at least for Nim ;)

2019-01-27 Thread bluenote
I have just published a small project called [watchcode](https://github.com/bluenote10/watchcode). As an exception, it's not a Nim project, but it was written 100% with Nim in mind ;). I was never fully satisfied with other solutions for code watching/rerunning, so I had to give it a go and I'm