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I'm experimenting with live-evaluating tests in my programming language project. It's relatively fiddly to hook up a UI for this, but it saves a precious keystroke to run the tests! I'm hoping that it results in more, better tests due to the convenience.

When a tool supports both regular expressions and literal strings, which should be the default? If you default to regex, users can match more strings than they realise (e.g. `foo.txt`) or less (e.g. `foo(bar)`). I typically see regex as the default, but I prefer the opposite.

Has anyone built a great solution to 'run all my unit tests automatically'? It's straightforward to write a while loop in bash, but handling timeouts, syntax errors etc well is hard. Running on save would be good, although I wonder if you could run fast tests on each keystroke.