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Jul 1, 2018 at 20:00

A fun quiz on eval() in JS, and corner cases of its behaviour: https://blog.brownplt.org/2012/10/21/js-eval.html I've seen some of the gotchas before, but I still don't envy JS implementors.

S5: Engineering Eval

Oct 5, 2025 at 20:23

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.

cc-rs/CHANGELOG.md at main · rust-lang/cc-rs

Rust library for build scripts to compile C/C++ code into a Rust library - rust-lang/cc-rs

Mar 31, 2023 at 15:44

I've released difftastic 0.46! In this release: * Ada support * Support for Arduino C++, better TOML handling, and a ton of upstream grammar updates * Fixed several nasty corner cases with trailing whitespace or binary/UTF-16 confusion

Release 0.46.0 · Wilfred/difftastic

Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Command Line Interface Removed the option --missing-as-empty. ...

Mar 26, 2022 at 23:35

Difftastic 0.24 is out! * Languages: Added Dart and improved Clojure * Display: Fixed a ton of corner cases, and added a warning when comparing a file with itself(!) * Performance: Improved large files or comparing directories

GitHub - Wilfred/difftastic: a structural diff that understands syntax 🟥🟩

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