“I had no idea what I was getting into when I started working on this.”
Git still shows you @@ -392,7 +392,12 @@ and makes you count lines to find the change. Difftastic parses 44 languages with tree-sitter and diffs the syntax tree instead. When the graph gets too big, it gives up and falls back to plain line diffs. Decades in, diffing code is still a research problem.