miniblog.

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

Some delightful examples of good compiler error messages in the latest Gleam release: https://gleam.run/news/context-aware-compilation/

It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic. It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time). It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.