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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by bfrog on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:42PM (#39780968)
While I agree tree-sitter is an amazing tool, writing the grammar out can be incredibly difficult I found. I tried writing out a grammar and highlighting query set for vhdl with tree-sitter, and found that there were a lot of difficulties in expressing vhdl grammar in tree-sitter.
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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by kstrauser on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:45PM (#39781014)
No argument from me on that. The upside is that one person, somewhere, has to get it right one time and then we can all use it.
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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by grub5000 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:39PM (#39781838)
Seems like something LLMs should be useful for, if not now then soon enough
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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by HumanOstrich on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:36PM (#39782601)
I think many people are exhausted (at least I am) with the constant irrational exuberance of bolting AI onto every technology, product, and service in existence to end all of humanity's problems. It won't work like that.
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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by germandiago on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:05PM (#39783725)
In fact, reminds me of the time at which they used Blockchain for everything.

Just a bubble right now. It will come back to its natural uses after it. Everyone is doing AI now and I am pretty sure it is to attract investment even if some might know their product will go nowhere.

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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by dreamcompiler on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:11PM (#39785038)
Correction: Everybody says they're doing AI now because that's the magic buzzword for getting money.

I spent the 1990s building actual AI software, but we had to call it something else because if you even whispered "AI" in the 90s your funding would dry up instantly.

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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by klabb3 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:55PM (#39787019)
Someone should build a tool that augments any text with current year tech buzzwords for optimal investor appeal. I wonder what tech could be used for that… wait
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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by pizza on Friday March 22, 2024 @02:30AM (#39787921)
tree-sitter?
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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by mehdix on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:41AM (#39788897)
Not quite what you're looking for, but checkout bullshit.js[0].

[0]: https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by germandiago on Friday March 22, 2024 @08:58AM (#39790267)
No... I mean, this is a perfect example, seriously. Made me laugh.
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