Feedback loop

A general purpose tool to set up good feedback loops and share them with your team.

Example

Working on nix code?

feedback -- nix-build --no-out-link

Features & Comparison with other tools

	feedback	steeloverseer	watchexec	entr
Indication of command starting	✔️	✔️	C	C
Indication of time	✔️	C	C	C
Clear screen between feedback	✔️	C	C	✔️
Gitignore-aware	🚧	✖️	✔️	✖
Named feedback loops	✔️	✖️	✖	✖
Configurable feedback loops	✔️	✔️	✖	✖
Cancelling previous runs that aren't done yet	✔️	✔️	✔️	✖
Long-form flags for every option	✔️	✔️	✔️	✖

• ✔️: Supported
• C: Possible but you have to write some code yourself
• 🚧 — Under development
• ✖️: Not supported
• ?: I don't know.

Someday/maybe ideas

• I want to have a good idea of the current state of things:
  • Is it blocking on CPU, on memory, on network?
• Manually activate a run
• Manually cancel and re-activate a run
• Low latency between change and rerun.
• Cancelling failed feedback loops from before.
• Ideally pipes still work in the loop, so we can do feedback "nix-build | cachix push mycache".