I've released difftastic 0.5! It now works with arbitrary git commands, which makes it far more useful.
Parsing is improved, diffing is *way* smarter, and it's faster too! Full changelog: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#05
(It's also less crashy, but it still panics on binary files.)
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Python has several good type checkers, Ruby has Sorbet, and there are others.
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I certainly see the appeal of an LLM system with full context and tool use (OpenClaw), but the lethal trifecta puts me off deploying it.
I do like the idea of an agent with a heartbeat though. A bunch of nice cron-style workflows can be built on top.
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Indented warnings, italics, bullets, even adding a left border to code snippets! It's a nice reminder to take full advantage of terminal features to help the reader.




