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On the challenge of writing accurate source spans on Unicode source code: https://reedmullanix.com/posts/unicode-source-spans.html Also (see footnotes) a fair number of LSP clients assume UTF-8 despite early versions of LSP mandating UTF-16!

Are there any package managers that treat changelogs as a first class concept? I end up looking for a CHANGELOG.md or a CHANGES.txt in the source code repository every time. The lack of standard prevents package hosting services being able to show changes.

It's rare to see ANSI escape codes for URLs in the wild, but cargo has it! This example links to https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/profiles.html#default-profiles, describing the different profiles. Considering releases vs debug is a source of confusion for new users expecting better performance, this seems wise.