When adding a new language to difftastic, it's hard to find interesting git repositories to test against.
I've started just querying GitHub for the most starred repos for a given language. For example, here's Haskell: https://github.com/search?l=&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E500+language%3AHaskell&s=stars&type=Repositories
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I've released difftastic 0.70! In this release:
* Added Dockerfile and fish shell support
* Improved Dart, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Java, OCaml, PHP,
Protocol Buffers and TOML.
* A bunch of display and performance fixes.
I carefully document `cargo install --locked` for difftastic users, I carefully use `--locked` for CI, and I've just realised that all my release builds totally ignore it! Oops.
Anyone using my prebuilt binaries have been getting different Unicode width calculations in display.
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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: