Self hosting is really nifty, but it's an additional cognitive burden.
For example, I can run difftastic on its own history. I use plain git-diff just as often.
My best improvements have come from using it in other codebases. It lets me think about one thing at a time
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Some excellent safety improvements in C++26: hardening the standard library against out-of-bounds bugs, and a safer semantics for uninitialised local variables:
I've released difftastic 0.65! Highlights of this release:
* Better parsing of Clojure, Common Lisp, Kotlin, Rust and Zig.
* Quality of life improvements for binary files.
I've released difftastic 0.57! In this release:
* A bunch of improvements around detection and display of binary files.
* Fixed some diffing issues with (ironically) text files.
* Better diff results for Scheme.




