Diffsitter Alternatives

diffsitter reviews and mentions

• Types are the basic tool of software design
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2025

  I'm pretty sure this counts. https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

  Certainly the idea has been suggested many times. I think people end up formatting both before/after and doing a diff on formatted before against formatted after. I've done that.

• AST-grep(sg) is a CLI tool for code structural search, lint, and rewriting
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Dec 2023

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

• Enable new diff option linematch (#14537) · neovim/neovim@04fbb1d
  2 projects | /r/neovim | 4 Nov 2022

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

• Difftastic, the Fantastic Diff: How it works
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2022

  One more tree-sitter based diffing tool - diffsitter

  https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

• What Comes After Git
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2022

  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

• Fast Kernel Headers: Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux kernel's "Dependency Hell"
  2 projects | /r/programming | 3 Jan 2022

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

• Thinking about programming systems and not just languages and environments
  3 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 16 Dec 2021

  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

• What if Git worked with Programming Languages?
  4 projects | /r/programming | 28 Sep 2021

  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).

  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2021

  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.

• Difftastic: A syntactic diff tool
  6 projects | /r/rust | 15 Sep 2021

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

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