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Apr 26, 2026 at 13:16
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One big challenge of open source is that the number of users (and bug reports) is entirely independent of the number of maintainers. Both users and maintainer capacity can fluctuate wildly.

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Apr 17, 2024 at 02:26
I think software maintainers can perceive their projects as way more buggy than they actually are. You spend more time looking at the bug tracker, which is (hopefully!) not representative of typical usage.
Apr 20, 2023 at 00:58
I enjoyed this interview with Lukas Wirth, one of the maintainers of rust-analyzer: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/lukas-wirth/ I didn't realise how little code was shared between rustc and rust-analyzer (only lexing and type layouts). This makes it hard to track new Rust features.
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Jul 12, 2022 at 07:32
Difftastic 0.31 is released: * Two new languages: Hacklang and SQL * Updates to: C#, Dart, Elm, Gleam, Haskell, HCL, Java, JSON, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala and TypeScript The tree-sitter parser maintainers have been busy!
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Release 0.31.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.31.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Parsing Added Hacklang and SQL support. Updated to the latest ...