It's now possible to use difftastic for all your git diffing operations! I'm using `git log -p` in this screenshot.
(It crashes horribly if you add/remove whole files, or modify binary files, but it's really nice to dogfood and spot issues!)
miniblog.
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It's really satisfying fixing crashes in rust-analyzer. You can start from a panic message and dig until you've got a tiny Rust program that triggers the problem.
(It's usually an issue with incomplete source files breaking invariants.)
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I'm trying mini projects to exercise my new programming language and find gaps.
So far I've done fizzbuzz, JSON parsing, and a crude scheme interpreter.
Any ideas for additional projects? They need to be well scoped because I keep finding e.g. stdlib crashes.
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LLMs are surprisingly good at reducing crash samples.
I've had success with "this project crashes my static analysis tool with the following command, try to shrink the repro whilst preserving the crash. Commit each smaller version to a branch".