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Sep 4, 2015 at 07:34
Old meets new: LLVM's serialisation of machine-specific IR is YAML! http://t.co/aRgTcKEKfL It's an interesting assembly language dialect.

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Nov 16, 2025 at 17:02
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Difftastic 0.67 is released! * Added support for protobuf, improved bash and YAML. * Updated 16 parsers to the latest upstream version (thanks Antonin Delpeuch!) * A ton of display polish for word highlighting, alignment, and binary files.
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Release 0.67.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.67.0 · 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 support for protocol buffer files. Updated Ada, ...
Feb 11, 2025 at 16:48
I've released difftastic 0.63! In this release: * Better parsing of Elixir, LaTeX, Make, Nix, Rust and YAML * Better detecting of text encoding, especially on Windows * Prebuilt musl binaries, so you can run released binaries on older systems!
Release 0.63.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Release 0.63.0 · Wilfred/difftastic
Difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. See the manual to get started, and the changelog for historical changes. Diffing When diffing directories, difftastic now ignores the ....
Sep 22, 2024 at 01:37
JSON is too small (no comments) and YAML is too big (many string syntaxes, relatively few implementations). TOML is in the sweet spot for complexity, but I agree this syntax is by far the most confusing part. TOML 1.1 improves it at least:
Proposal: Allow newlines and trailing commas in inline tables · Issue #516 · toml-lang/toml
Proposal: Allow newlines and trailing commas in inline tables · Issue #516 · toml-lang/toml
Overall I really like toml and its syntax feels very obvious to me for the most part. The only thing that doesn't is the expclicit cripling of inline tables, i.e. inline tables cannot have newlines...