I'm increasingly persuaded that the best kind of architecture diagrams are ASCII text art. It seems to be the only format that others will edit.
I keep seeing an antipattern where someone draws a comprehensive diagram and it keeps getting used even as it becomes less accurate.
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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!
Whilst LLMs don't always give an accurate answer, the UI is really compelling. I keep finding users whose favourite way of doing research is an LLM.
Difftastic does syntax highlighting based on tree-sitter's parse of the *whole file*. It's more accurate than most diffs are able to do.
In this hunk, the opening " of the string literal isn't included, but difftastic still knows that the first lines are from a string.
