Smart Languages and Dumb Parsers https://web.archive.org/web/20071229092212/http://glomek.blogspot.com/2007/12/smart-languages-and-dumb-parsers.html (on the relationship between syntactic sugar and metaprogramming)
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Difftastic 0.67 is released!
* Added support for protobuf, improved bash and YAML.
* Updated 16 parsers to the latest upstream version (thanks Antonin Delpeuch!)
* A ton of display polish for word highlighting, alignment, and binary files.
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I'm coming round to the view that a main function shouldn't take arguments.
For example, in Rust you have to call std::env::args() to get CLI arguments.
This makes Hello World less verbose, and gives you more flexibility in setting up CLI argument parsers.
I've released difftastic 0.62! In this release:
* Updated parsers for Bash, C, C++, C#, CSS, Go, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSON, Julia, Lua, Objective-C, OCaml, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, TOML, TypeScript and XML.
* Obligatory crash fixes.
