An interesting comment from the Coverity paper: randomisation is a very powerful technique for checkers that would require exponential work. Unfortunately it increases the likelihood of churn.
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Difftastic has been cited in a paper!
Modernizing SMT-Based Type Error Localization https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09034
The authors use difftastic to work out which parts of a buggy program have actually changed, a great use case :)
On thinking of books like software, treating them as evolving artifacts, and URLs versus paper book publishers: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Memos/Books-as-Software/
Copilot doesn't offer a way of disabling completion inside comments. People have discovered a comical workaround: swearing in the comment! https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/8062#discussioncomment-11902740