Regular expressions being greedy seems like a bad default. They tend to work fine on small inputs but capture too much on larger inputs.
Too late to change in most situations though.
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The Bitter Lesson: how implementing generic search and scaling compute outperforms custom logic in many situations:
I've released difftastic 0.48! Highlights in this release:
* Subword highlighting in replaced strings! This is a big improvement in many situations.
* Better Scala parsing
* Better Haskell handling
Codeforces is a huge website with a wealth of well-defined programming problems: https://codeforces.com/help#q1
(Useful for program synthesis and other situations where you want a large problem set to play with.)
