It's a small thing, but I'm much happier with the output of --version in the latest version of difftastic.
It shows the release version number, the commit hash, and the commit date. This gives you a sense of the age of release, but you still have a reproducible build (unlike build time).
It also shows OS, arch and compiler, because those are common requirements in bug reports.
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It's weird that GitHub shows time since the last commit, but not time since the first commit. It's a nice way of seeing how mature a project is.
Shower thought: using a tool like cargo-semver, could you build a package registry where the uploader never chooses the version number?
E.g. your last release was 5.2025-09-13 and you've just changed a type, so today's release is 6.2025-11-05.
Some delightful examples of good compiler error messages in the latest Gleam release: https://gleam.run/news/context-aware-compilation/