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I've released difftastic 0.65! Highlights of this release: * Better parsing of Clojure, Common Lisp, Kotlin, Rust and Zig. * Quality of life improvements for binary files. https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/releases/tag/0.65.0

In LSP, a position is represented as a line number and a column offset (in Unicode code units): https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#position This is pretty elegant. You'll get the correct line regardless of encoding bugs, and the editor already knows the line number so it's cheap to compute.

Bril is a cute intermediate language for teaching (think simplified LLVM IR): https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html The idea of providing a standard JSON format to help students write basic passes is really elegant.