[HN Gopher] Developer tool 'diff' is 40 years old: can it be imp...
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       Developer tool 'diff' is 40 years old: can it be improved?
        
       Author : MilnerRoute
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2024-08-26 19:30 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (stackoverflow.blog)
 (TXT) w3m dump (stackoverflow.blog)
        
       | JoeAltmaier wrote:
       | We had, back in the '90s, a 'semantic diff' that ignored
       | whitespace, knew about programming languages, showed only
       | significant code changes (not comments; not empty lines; not
       | refactoring of code into a different number of lines). All I used
       | after that.
        
       | skp1995 wrote:
       | isn't difftastic the new way to do this?
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778412
       | 
       | I highly recommend trying it out.
        
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