The irony of getting bad diff displays in difftastic unit tests is not lost on me.
Maybe I've been staring at difftastic output for too long, but I find this before/after display from my tests to be pretty hard to read.
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I'm trying to decide what program I should show on the home page of my PL.
Hello World is too simple to show much syntax. Fibonacci is OK but the reader may not know what print(fib(10)) should show.
Maybe print(greet("World")) is better? It gives you a function definition at least.
Text to speech systems seem to have largely avoided the uncanny valley effect. I've encountered robotic sounding voices but it's way less unsettling than bad CGI.
I'm not sure why this is. Maybe looking at faces is just way higher bandwidth so more things can go wrong?
There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail.
Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions.
Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.