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I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

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Re: I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

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Amazing! Great job! What limits your tool to compiler/build tools, can it be used for any arbitrary process?

Thank you! Yeah it can be used for any type of program, but I haven't been able to think of anything besides compilation that creates enough processes to be interesting. I'm open to ideas!

Video encoding and 3-D rendering are a couple that come to mind; I'd think they'd launch quite a few.

This looks like a really cool tool!

Re: I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

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post #5

but why? I have to admit it's a fun project

here, I'll copy the first paragraph of TFA for you:

> Many software projects take a long time to compile. Sometimes that’s just due to the sheer amount of code, like in the LLVM project. But often a build is slower than it should be for dumb, fixable reasons.

Re: I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

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This is fabulous!! Is there a version available for MacOS today?? I'd love to give it a whirl... For Rust, C++ / Swift and other stuff. Thanks!

I'll be sending out the a macOS version to another wave of beta users after I fix an outstanding issue, if you sign up (at bottom of article) and mention this comment I can make sure you're in that wave.

Re: I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

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post #12

This is fabulous!! Is there a version available for MacOS today?? I'd love to give it a whirl... For Rust, C++ / Swift and other stuff. Thanks!

It looks like it doesn't have a public release for any OS yet, but has a way to enter for early access.

Re: I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

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Nice, I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.

I’ve noticed on my huge catkin cmake project that cmake is checking the existence of the same files hundreds of times too. Is there anything that can hook into fork() and provide a cached value after the first invocation?

Re: I made a real-time C/C++/Rust build visualizer

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post #14
post #12

This is fabulous!! Is there a version available for MacOS today?? I'd love to give it a whirl... For Rust, C++ / Swift and other stuff. Thanks!

I'll be sending out the a macOS version to another wave of beta users after I fix an outstanding issue, if you sign up (at bottom of article) and mention this comment I can make sure you're in that wave.

Thanks. Signed up
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