hot take: non-text representations of stuff that's fundamentally directed cyclic graphs (e.g. digital logic) are Bad bc you can't diff them
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there doesn't exist a way that allows you to render a difference of graphs embedded in 2d that scales well
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when you think about it, text diff is an awful hack, a single operation (moving a block into an if) is a ten line diff
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.@newincpp you can quite reasonably diff DAGs! in fact *not* diffing DAGs is a critical problem with present day *textual* diff
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I think my point was that we already work with unfortunate representations and yet get results
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@whitequark but is there a way to render 95% of real world differences well?
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we work with representations that are unfortunate in corner case (eg reindenting) but underlying representation is correct (DAG)