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Super impressed with the Ariadne library for compiler error formatting. It handles all the messy line highlighting, underlining etc that a good error should have. Left: old, handrolled error formatting Right: Ariadne formatting

"Mark of a chef: messy apron, clean sleeves" -- Ratatouille What's the programming equivalent? Clean code, lots of stashes?

I've been adding heuristics to difftastic for showing comment changes. See before and after. It's a messy problem: do I split on spaces or word boundaries? Do I handle "reflowing" single-line comments where a word is added to a sentence and several comments change?