I made some changes to a node express project that I haven't touched in almost five years. I was pleasantly surprised that I only needed to update one dependency to get it working again!
(It was sqlite3, which is a native dependency using node-gyp.)
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I'm still pleasantly surprised when difftastic does a good job. Here's an example I saw today: adding a new variable with or_else() is extremely readable!
I'm dogfooding difftastic and I'm always pleasantly surprised when it works.
Here's a nice example from optimisation today: I've removed an outer if statement. Note that it's lined up line 47 on the left with line 41 on the right, even though they have different indentation.
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I still associate gdb with "issue that will be tricky to debug", but I used it today with Rust. Everything just worked.
I was investigating some stack overflows and all the metadata was correct and readable. I was pleasantly surprised :)