I find the Process API with Process.new and Process.run confusing, often mixing both forgetting which one is blocking or non-blocking. Another pain point compared to said, Python, is to easily create Strings from the STDOUT and STDERR from a subprocess. I created https://github.com/j8r/exec.cr to …

Improve Process API

absolutejam_gh July 26, 2019, 7:49pm 7

Didn’t realise this thread existed because it was one of my points in Stdlib - A mixed discussion about some modules. If you have an RFC, I’d be interested in seeing it!

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