🔧 The `notify` crate is surprisingly pleasant — I built a cross-platform file watcher in four dependencies

The notify crate is surprisingly pleasant — I built a cross-platform file watcher in four dependencies



entr, cargo-watch, and nodemon are all fine. They're also each tied to one ecosystem. I wanted a single 10 MB binary I could drop into any project's Makefile. watch-exec is that binary, and building it taught me that writing a correct file...