The Makefile problem, or how absurdly hard it is to write paths in a text file whilst supporting both *nix and Windows:
miniblog.
Related Posts
Tried `just` (the task runner) today, and I really like it. npm has scripts, but `just` works anywhere.
Editor integration is also excellent: you can get by with Makefile highlighting, but in Emacs you can even run everything interactively!
https://github.com/casey/just
Difftastic now handles tab characters precisely! This sounds like a small thing, but it's crucial when parsing Makefile syntax.
Makefiles look way better now.
(Technically tabs are also syntactically significant inside string literals, and that case is fixed too.)
I've released difftastic 0.35! In this release:
* Basic support for Makefile syntax
* Support for UTF-16 files (helpful on Windows)
* Several quality of life improvements, including the ability to see what languages are currently supported




