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  • Its certainly more painful to collect dependencies with cmake, so its not worth doing if you can hand roll your own easily enough.

    The flip side is that by using a library, it theoretically means it should be fairly battle-tested code, and should be using appropriate APIs. File watching has a bunch of different OS specific APIs that could be used, in addition to the naive “read everything periodically” approach, so while you could knock something together in an hour, the library should be the correct approach. Sadly, at least in rust land, there are a ton of badly written libraries to wade through… 🤷