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Anthropic used Claude to write a C compiler in Rust (CCC). I've really enjoyed following the discussion. The initial post shows how they wrote the harness with GCC as an oracle and a prompt specifying a design using SSA. The author has clear domain expertise. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

Should lint suppressions be first class syntax or comments? Adding a proper metadata system (e.g. Clojure or Rust) is a big design space but it's clear which expressions are affected. Comments are much easier to implement but it's easy for users to get them wrong. Thoughts?

I don't have much data on difftastic usage, and I suspect most users get it from the packages provided by their distro. There's been a clear uptick in stars since I built a homepage in the last month or two though! (The first big bump is when it hit Hacker News.)