Nix is a more popular project than I realised! It's the 11th most used language for pull requests on GitHub: https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2021/4 and I've had multiple people ask for Nix support in difftastic.
Screenshot shows difftastic comparing different versions of the relevant recipe.
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I carefully document `cargo install --locked` for difftastic users, I carefully use `--locked` for CI, and I've just realised that all my release builds totally ignore it! Oops.
Anyone using my prebuilt binaries have been getting different Unicode width calculations in display.
I've just realised that Community Fibre, my ISP, offers 5 Gb/s packages in some London addresses!
I'm struggling to imagine a use case for such a high residential bandwidth. When I switched to 1 Gb/s I needed to upgrade my wifi router to actually take advantage.
Is there a good term for "after using this feature we realised that the best design is different from the current design"?
In casual conversation I generally hear "bug" but there was nothing wrong with the original implementation.
