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It's funny how languages can offer multiple forms of syntax, but formatters standardise to a single form. E.g. single vs double quotes in JS, optional semicolons in JS, different ways of grouping imports in Rust. Should new languages be more syntactically opinionated?

Difftastic works really hard to find similarities between the before and after file. Sometimes this works wonderfully (see first screenshot) and sometimes it goes way too far (see second screenshot). It's matched up a few variables and semicolons from adjacent functions!

Adding dragon emoji as semicolons in node.js or the typescript compiler: https://blog.angularindepth.com/instead-of-semicolons-what-if-you-could-code-with-dragons-df5d0a4ef4ee Nice post showing that working with programming language implementations need not be scary!