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I would have thought that invoking a C compiler would be a solved problem. Looking at Rust's cc crate there's a remarkable long tail of corner cases to fix. Exotic CPUs, microarchitectures, compiler differences, operating system differences, etc. https://github.com/rust-lang/cc-rs/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

I've released difftastic 0.63! In this release: * Better parsing of Elixir, LaTeX, Make, Nix, Rust and YAML * Better detecting of text encoding, especially on Windows * Prebuilt musl binaries, so you can run released binaries on older systems! https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.63.0

TIL Drupal has a credit system to give preferential treatment to people and organisations who contribute regularly! https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem