I've released difftastic 0.68! A smaller update, but still worth upgrading:
* Improved Bash, C, Go, Lua, Nix, Perl, Python, Rust, Scala, Swift and YAML parsing.
* Minor display and git compatibility fixes.
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I've released difftastic 0.70! In this release:
* Added Dockerfile and fish shell support
* Improved Dart, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Java, OCaml, PHP,
Protocol Buffers and TOML.
* A bunch of display and performance fixes.
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 had a third attempt at porting difftastic from Dijkstra to A*, and I've eventually concluded that A* just isn't worth it for the implementation complexity.
I had fun writing it up though, and I've even attempted ASCII art for building intuitions:

