dirs VS watchexec

Compare dirs vs watchexec and see what are their differences.

dirs

a low-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows (by xdg-rs)
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dirs watchexec
1 20
182 4,870
1.1% 3.6%
0.0 8.6
about 1 year ago 2 days ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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dirs

Posts with mentions or reviews of dirs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-16.

watchexec

Posts with mentions or reviews of watchexec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-01.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dirs and watchexec you can also consider the following projects:

directories-rs - a mid-level library that provides config/cache/data paths, following the respective conventions on Linux, macOS and Windows

entr - Run arbitrary commands when files change

wasmer - 🚀 The leading Wasm Runtime supporting WASIX, WASI and Emscripten

watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator. [Moved to: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty]

fswatch - A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

systemd-manager

espanso - Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust

fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

concurr - Performs distributed command execution, written in Rust w/ Tokio