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.
miniblog.
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I've never seen a good design philosophy on how to sort compiler errors for the best UX.
Do you order by line, or by severity? Do you put the most actionable at the end (because that's most visible when the terminal scrolls) or at the beginning?
Anthropic used Claude to write a C compiler in Rust (CCC). I've really enjoyed following the discussion.
The initial post shows how they wrote the harness with GCC as an oracle and a prompt specifying a design using SSA. The author has clear domain expertise.
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
Co-Authored-By: An old Stack Overflow answer, blindly accepting the compiler's suggestions, and a linter.
