oak VS diffsitter

I'll post my own crappy one called oak which uses templates to render the result of tree-sitter queries.

https://github.com/go-go-golems/oak

I initially hope the queries would be more powerful, but they are really not. You can write queries and a resulting template in a yaml file. The program will scan a list of repositories for all these YAML files, and expose them as command line verbs.

Here is one to find go definitions:

https://github.com/go-go-golems/oak/blob/main/cmd/oak/querie...

This can then be run as:

         oak go definitions /home/manuel/code/wesen/corporate-headquarters/geppetto/pkg/cmds/cmd.go

An earth-shattering consequence of this heavenly design is that you can add repositories for various GO GO GADGETS such as sqleton, escuse-me, geppetto or oak to your projects' codebases, point to them in your config file, and BAM, you now have a rich set of CLI tools that is automatically shared across your team and kept in source control right along the rest of your code.

Or https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter. I've tried both and I like them. No preference or notable opinions on them yet!

For git diff's I've been using https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

One more tree-sitter based diffing tool - diffsitter

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

Several threads here point to difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic

I know a lot of people who have a lot of hope for diffsitter (or something like it): https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

Personally, I think the reason most "good" semantic diff tools are proprietary is that they are huge amounts of effort that are mostly "hacks" and "heuristics" bandaged together in ways that people don't want to let out how the sausage was made.

But I also "general, language agnostic AST-based semantic diff" is a mountain peak we cannot reach (probably ever), and I believe my experiments found an interesting local maxima that people are maybe sleeping on (lexer-based diffs rather than parser-based diffs): https://github.com/WorldMaker/tokdiff

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter there are quiet a few projects such as this one, attempting to solve the issue. :)

There’s an interesting project in the semantic diff/merge space that I have been keeping an eye out for https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

I have never used any of them, but it look like tree-sitter based diff tools are exactly what you are searching for (like difftastic, gumtree or diffsitter).

I believe Unison is the only attempt to do this at a programming language/environment level.

For Git diffs, there is Diffsitter, which uses Tree Sitter to generate semantic diffs of code files: https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

I have not used it, but it is high on my todo list.

Looks great, I'll try it! FYI, there is a very similar project called diffsitter https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter