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I'm delighted that so many people are getting value in difftastic, but there has been a significant increase in new issues recently! Hopefully this is a temporary bump from HN. It's a genuine risk from creating a generic tool: if 1% of devs use it, that's a huge userbase.

Wow, Android is throwing significant weight behind RISC-V:

Difftastic now handles tab characters precisely! This sounds like a small thing, but it's crucial when parsing Makefile syntax. Makefiles look way better now. (Technically tabs are also syntactically significant inside string literals, and that case is fixed too.)