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Exploring design ideas using AI as a learning assistant, for creative exploration: https://andymatuschak.org/hmwl/

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 :)

I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page! Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂