Difftastic 0.15 is out!
* Vastly improved text diffing. Previously it was treated as a structural diff on a large comment, leading to poor perf and highlighting.
* Significant perf improvements in parsing and display.
* A bunch of parser fixes too!
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I'm delighted that so many people are getting value in difftastic, but there has been a significant increase in new issues recently! Hopefully this is a temporary bump from HN.
It's a genuine risk from creating a generic tool: if 1% of devs use it, that's a huge userbase.
Wow, Android is throwing significant weight behind RISC-V:
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.)



