Miserlou / Miserlou/Loop

Continuous output during execution and refactoring

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Description

Hello @Miserlou

I used loop some times for running tests etc and it's very very useful. A missing feature for me has always been that the output is not printed immediately and just after the program exits. Furthermore the stdout and stderr is merged which is sometimes bad.

I tried to fix those things but ended up with a more or less rewrite of loop based on tokio for the io and child process handling. The CLI interface is almost the same. I pushed it and I'm using it since a couple of days. I probably needs some more polishing but in general works.
Let me know if you're interested in this branch.

Thanks for the missing loop command ;-)

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Start by reviewing the current loop implementation and comparing it with the proposed Tokio-based branch at https://github.com/flxo/loop. Check how child-process output is handled, then verify that stdout and stderr remain separate and output appears while execution is ongoing.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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Stale
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Mostly clear
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