miniblog.

Exploring the design space and tradeoffs of programming language syntax, and syntactic sugar vs syntactic salt: https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/syntaxdesign/

So far, all of the people trying difftastic with huge files have been using C or C++ source code. Maybe it's more common in those communities? (Difftastic will eventually fall back to fast, dumb, line-based diffing if you give it a multi-megabyte source file.)

Encoding a spell checker in Typescript types: https://github.com/kkuchta/TSpell (Very impressive, though unsurprisingly it's slow)