Compiling Clojure to shell: https://github.com/pallet/stevedore . Sounds slightly bonkers, but effective (especially wrt improving startup time).
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In praise of Tcl, and reflecting on syntax features for a good command shell: https://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html
A cute systemd feature to get the system clock roughly correct: if the system time is before the compilation time of the systemd binary, it moves the clock forward to that time!
https://lwn.net/Articles/714355/
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