icdiff vs howdoi

icdiff

improved colored diff (by jeffkaufman)

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howdoi

instant coding answers via the command line (by gleitz)

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icdiff		howdoi
	Project
2	Mentions	12
4,150	Stars	10,437
-	Growth	-
3.3	Activity	3.4
5 days ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

icdiff

Posts with mentions or reviews of icdiff. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-23.

14 Awesome CLI Tools for Modern Software Developers
13 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2022

icdiff is a visual diffing tool for your terminal.
A viewer for git and diff output
2 projects | /r/commandline | 4 May 2021

A bit similar, but not as fancy in terms of language syntax is icdiff

howdoi

Posts with mentions or reviews of howdoi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-17.

howdoi codebase
1 project | /r/learnpython | 30 May 2023

In this case, you'd be looking at https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi/blob/master/howdoi/howdoi.py
Why can't I hold all these syntaxes?
4 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 17 Feb 2023

cheat and howdoi
Integrating ChatGPT with search engines like Google, Bing, Duckduckgo, interesting right?
1 project | /r/GPT3 | 21 Dec 2022

howdoi already had this without any machine learning.
howdoi.nvim: a telescope extension for querying howdoi
2 projects | /r/neovim | 5 Jun 2022

Just made a simple plugin for querying howdoi (you can query stuff like 'class c++' to get an example) via telescope
14 Awesome CLI Tools for Modern Software Developers
13 projects | dev.to | 23 Mar 2022

With howdoi you can browse the internet for coding snippets right from your terminal.
Show HN: Oh-heck, a terminal command for when you forget other terminal commands
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2022
Visit StackOverflow without leaving the terminal with Pyhton
1 project | dev.to | 13 Oct 2021

I advise you to visit this link: howdoi
How to "Google It" like a Senior Software Engineer
1 project | /r/videos | 25 Sep 2021
MLH, Open Source, Mapillary & Me
7 projects | dev.to | 31 Aug 2021

Howdoi - howdoi provides the solution to the question, "Are you a hack programmer? Do you find yourself constantly Googling for how to do basic programming tasks?"
tldr: this is amazing! (link in the comment)
13 projects | /r/linux | 30 Apr 2021

You may also be interested in howdoi, it actually works decently well.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing icdiff and howdoi you can also consider the following projects:

ttygif - Convert terminal recordings to animated gifs

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

rebound - Command-line tool that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when an exception is thrown

httpie - 🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

delta - A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output

qbatch

Focus Phase - A simple yet powerful timer and time tracker from the command line. https://ammar1y.github.io/Focus-Phase/

ack3 - ack is a grep-like search tool optimized for source code.

bashplotlib - plotting in the terminal

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

try - Dead simple CLI tool to try Python packages - It's never been easier! :package: