miniblog.

Today I learnt about crossterm, a Rust crate for interacting with terminals in a cross-platform way: https://docs.rs/crossterm/latest/crossterm/ It handles things like is_tty() and terminal::size(), which are hard to support correctly in both Linux and Windows. I might port difftastic.

GNU Coreutils doesn't handle UTF-8 correctly yet: https://catgirl.ai/log/cut-c-harmful/

It's amazingly awkward to print a syntactic diff correctly. Even the lines before and after the changes may not line up, if whitespace has changed! Difftastic now inserts blank lines to help things line up. I'm reasonably happy with the result here.