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by __MatrixMan__ 1197 days ago
I like exercism, but the CLI can hide things like what a sane project structure looks like in that language.

I wish it generated a project with unit tests and told you which command to run (i.e. not an exercism command) in order to run those tests. That way you've got a more similar experience to what would happen if you cloned a project in that language and wanted to contribute.

Unfamiliar languages are much easier to deal with than unfamiliar tool chains IMO

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It depends on the language. Some of their language tracks definitely do give those instructions.
Ah, good point. Either I did that thing where I only thought I was reading, or nim could use some work.
I've had success in the CLI with elixir, running tests, and structure