TIL there are multiple developer tools called asdf!
(1) https://github.com/fare/asdf (Common Lisp build tool)
(2) https://asdf-vm.com/ (manages installed PL runtimes, like a generic nvm or rbenv)
I'm surprised multiple folks like the name, I'd worry that it's easy to forget.
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I'm delighted that so many people are getting value in difftastic, but there has been a significant increase in new issues recently! Hopefully this is a temporary bump from HN.
It's a genuine risk from creating a generic tool: if 1% of devs use it, that's a huge userbase.
The Bitter Lesson: how implementing generic search and scaling compute outperforms custom logic in many situations:
The book 'The Art of the Metaobject Protocol' has two chapters in the public domain and available online!
Chapter 5: Concepts
Chapter 6: Generic Functions and Methods