I'm delighted that so many people are getting value in difftastic, but there has been a significant increase in new issues recently! Hopefully this is a temporary bump from HN.
It's a genuine risk from creating a generic tool: if 1% of devs use it, that's a huge userbase.
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I think software maintainers can perceive their projects as way more buggy than they actually are.
You spend more time looking at the bug tracker, which is (hopefully!) not representative of typical usage.
@RenewedRebecca That's correct, but I was thinking that offering threading to a user might make them more tolerant of a slow interpreter.
For example, if I have an AST walker but provide Clojure semantics, users can hopefully get a big speedup by using all the cores in their application.
I've changed the difftastic slogan to " a structural diff that understands syntax".
Previously I just said "a diff that understands syntax", but users sometimes assumed it was just a diff with syntax highlighting. Hopefully this communicates the purpose better.