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Take a look at the term "Semantic Source Diff", eg https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiff.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiff.html Tools in
by jonahbenton 6y ago
Take a look at the term "Semantic Source Diff", eg
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiff.html https://martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiff.html
Tools in this space date back to the 1990s. There is a recent upsurge of interest, a number of capable tools for different languages are currently available.
- briv 6y agoPijul gives me hope semantic diffs may become common - see the "Dependencies" paragraph of https://pijul.org/posts/2020-11-07-towards-1.0/ https://pijul.org/posts/2020-11-07-towards-1.0/. The HN comments on that - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032956 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032956 - are a nice read as well.