I'm delighted to release difftastic 0.9! https://crates.io/crates/difftastic
In this release:
* Added support for TypeScript, TSX and Elixir
* Improved Rust, Clojure, CSS and plain text
* Added a manual: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/
* Performance improvements (~40% cumulatively I believe)
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