500 chars is an awful lot.
140 chars is too little (though I have long admired https://twitter.com/MicroSFF writing entire stories in single tweets). 500 chars is enough for me to dither over what I've written.
140 chars enables you to write and edit in a short period. That said, I'm forced to ask 'which abbrevation / grammar fault is least irritating?' regularly.
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TIL Rust has an ambiguity `if Foo {}` -- is `Foo` a value of type bool, or a struct?
Rust solves this by defining a grammar production 'any expression except struct literals' and using it in this position.
I've released difftastic 0.46! In this release:
* Ada support
* Support for Arduino C++, better TOML handling, and a ton of upstream grammar updates
* Fixed several nasty corner cases with trailing whitespace or binary/UTF-16 confusion
I'm adding Erlang support for difftastic! The basic diffing works, but I'm still tweaking syntax highlighting.
The grammar distinguishes between "strings" and 'atoms', but I'm not sure if I should highlight both the same way.


