In a website that executes a unix program for you, would you expect stdout and stderr shown interleaved or separate?
(I suppose you could store an ordered series of labelled chunks to allow the user to see either, but that's significant impl complexity for unclear gain.)
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I've been experimenting with LLM autoresearch. I prompted Sol to make difftastic faster without changing output on the test suite, and log everything it tried:
https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/c6e9c6fed4c71276a8b0e377c92695c3d929dc7f/PERF_RESEARCH_LOG.md
It found some interesting performance tweaks, although it's too tolerant of complexity.
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I had a third attempt at porting difftastic from Dijkstra to A*, and I've eventually concluded that A* just isn't worth it for the implementation complexity.
I had fun writing it up though, and I've even attempted ASCII art for building intuitions:
JSON is too small (no comments) and YAML is too big (many string syntaxes, relatively few implementations).
TOML is in the sweet spot for complexity, but I agree this syntax is by far the most confusing part.
TOML 1.1 improves it at least: