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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 :)

It's incredibly hard to explain adversarial problems to users. I see gamers sincerely asking "why doesn't the publisher just fix the cheater problem?". This is exacerbated by the fact that sharing too many details of anticheat can make the problem worse.

It's rare to see ANSI escape codes for URLs in the wild, but cargo has it! This example links to https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#default-profiles, describing the different profiles. Considering releases vs debug is a source of confusion for new users expecting better performance, this seems wise.