Timer API for motoko

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Yes, it is. You’ll find everything here:

Is there a way to give precedence to certain function executions if there is an active queue in the canister's / subnet's execution?

Timers are in moc since 0.7.5 and are present in dfx 0.13.0-beta.1! Have fun! (See the thread of Heartbeat improvements / Timers [Community Consideration] - #138 by ggreif for the complete discussion.) Here is the documentation which hasn’t yet found its way into the portal, but will soon!

You can then import it with

import Timer "mo:base/Timer";

Also possibly helpful:

Importing Timer in Motoko, and using moc 0.7.5 with dfx 0.13.0-beta.2

I updated dfx to dfx 0.13.0-beta.2 to use Motoko Timer. I noticed a couple of things: import error [M0009], file ".mops/_github/base@moc-0.7.4/src/Timers/lib.mo" does not exist it seems to still be using moc 0.7.4 instead of 0.7.5. I’m told the binary of moc can be downloaded but is this expected behaviour? Also, not sure if it’s Timer or Timers. It seems to be used both ways: (motoko/timers.md at master · dfinity/motoko · GitHub) (motoko-base/Timer.mo at master · dfinity/motoko-base · Git…