I'm curious to see what impact Microsoft's purchase of GitHub has on the long term prospects of Atom.
Atom is a lovely editor pushing the boundaries of web tech amd editor design in several areas, but its usecase is similar to VS Code. Would MS want to fund three editor teams?
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Difftastic understands syntactic boundaries. I keep spotting cases in other diff tools where textual diffing can't show the structure.
On the nuances of Rust inlining, crate boundaries, and what gets inlined by default: https://matklad.github.io/2021/07/09/inline-in-rust.html
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?
