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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by epistasis on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:52PM (#39781128)
I'm imagining what I could have done in my compilers class with something like tree-sitter...

It feels kind of as foundational as YACC.

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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax by ivanjermakov on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:56PM (#39781197)
It is literally an alternative to YACC and other parser generators.
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