https://github.com/alaviss/nim-sys

Abstractions for common operating system interfaces
https://github.com/alaviss/nim-sys

nim system work-in-progress

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Abstractions for common operating system interfaces

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alaviss/nim-sys
• Owner: alaviss
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-01-03T16:10:29.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-29T17:30:38.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-30T00:58:20.899Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: nim, system, work-in-progress
• Language: Nim
• Homepage: https://alaviss.github.io/nim-sys
• Size: 475 KB
• Stars: 47
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 14
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: license.txt

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# An abstraction layer for common operating system services

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This package is an experiment in rewriting various parts of stdlib's `os` module.

The goals are:

- To employ the use of destructors for resource lifetime management

- To provide simpler and more powerful interfaces to operating system services

- To abstract away OS differences and provide consistent and intuitive behaviors

- To reduce reliance on libc

Currently this project is a work-in-progress, and works here are aimed for upstreaming to the stdlib.

- [API documentation](https://alaviss.github.io/nim-sys)

## On-going projects

These stdlib modules are targeted for redesign/reimplementation (ordered by priority):

- osproc

- io

- os

## Targets

This package primarily targets the following operating systems:

- Windows

- Linux

- macOS

There is also second-tier support for:

- FreeBSD

- OpenBSD

- NetBSD

- POSIX-compatible OSes

These OS are not covered by automated testing, so they may break at any time.

## License

This project is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

See [license.txt](license.txt) for more details.