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Jan 11, 2022 at 02:24
Displaying syntactic diffs is a really hard problem. GumTree has instructions for using it with Docker, so it's easy to try: https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree/tree/main/docker#usage I compared some C++ with difftastic. GumTree does pretty well in the first case, but it's highlighting too much in the second.
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