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nine_k on Jan 16, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Essence: Desktop operating system built from scrat...

File watching API is a thing on most OSes. It's up to the app to actually use it and offer a nice UI flow around it.

marcellus23 on Jan 17, 2022 [–]

> It's up to the app to actually use it and offer a nice UI flow around it.

No, the OS can provide frameworks that handle it by default, so app devs don’t have to worry. macOS does this.

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