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WebAssembly seems like a totally reasonable bytecode format, but I've not had many opportunities to use it so far. Has wasm found its 'killer app' yet?

I find it fascinating how some businesses have scheduled downtime for their websites (e.g. my electricity provider last weekend), but others don't. I suspect it's primarily culture. You generally need to turn off electricity to do work, so your other tooling may reflect that.

Difftastic has been cited in a paper! Modernizing SMT-Based Type Error Localization https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09034 The authors use difftastic to work out which parts of a buggy program have actually changed, a great use case :)