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Beyond Compare is a pretty good diff/merge tool that runs natively on macOS. Sure it's UI is slightly non-native too. https://www.scootersoftware.com/ https://

Beyond Compare is a pretty good diff/merge tool that runs natively on macOS. Sure it's UI is slightly non-native too. https://www.scootersoftware.com/ https://www.scootersoftware.com/

lkxijlewlf 4y ago
I love love Beyond Compare. It's been my go to diff tool for years.
zikohh 4y ago
Big fan of beyond compare
donatj 4y ago
I love and highly recommend Beyond Compare. That being said, the Mac version could use a little love of late. They're a small team so I mean… priorities I guess…
aninteger 4y ago
I suppose this is because it's written in FreePascal using Qt.
- badsectoracula 4y ago
  AFAIK it is written in Lazarus/LCL which in addition to the Qt backend it also has a native Cocoa backend. I wonder if the Qt backend is still better than the native Cocoa backend though - it used to be the case some years ago as it was easier to interface with Carbon than Cocoa (Free Pascal got an entire new language mode - Objective Pascal - to be able to use Objective C objects directly to work with Cocoa) so for years most effort went on the Carbon backend until it was deprecated and removed for 64bit apps - but nowadays all work is on the Cocoa backend. Perhaps in the future BC will switch to the Cocoa backend and provide more "native" controls (and wont need to bundle Qt either).
elromulous 4y ago
I love BC. The merge view was such a revelation. If you've never used it, do yourself a favor and try it out.
chrsw 4y ago
It's decent. It's easy to use but it's getting a little old. And they still don't support line wrapping.
altano 4y ago
They have a great license too. I can bring my personal license to my work computers so it makes it a no-brainer to just buy the license and then use it everywhere. They recently made that one license work cross platform too, and retroactively upgraded my license for free.
- ChrisRR 4y ago
  I've done the same. Installed at home, on my work PC and laptop. So easy that I was happy to pay for it.

Beyond Compare is a pretty good diff/merge tool that runs natively on macOS. Sure it's UI is slightly non-native too. https://www.scootersoftware.com/ https://www.scootersoftware.com/

lkxijlewlf 4y ago

I love love Beyond Compare. It's been my go to diff tool for years.

zikohh 4y ago

Big fan of beyond compare

donatj 4y ago

I love and highly recommend Beyond Compare. That being said, the Mac version could use a little love of late. They're a small team so I mean… priorities I guess…

aninteger 4y ago

I suppose this is because it's written in FreePascal using Qt.

badsectoracula 4y ago
AFAIK it is written in Lazarus/LCL which in addition to the Qt backend it also has a native Cocoa backend. I wonder if the Qt backend is still better than the native Cocoa backend though - it used to be the case some years ago as it was easier to interface with Carbon than Cocoa (Free Pascal got an entire new language mode - Objective Pascal - to be able to use Objective C objects directly to work with Cocoa) so for years most effort went on the Carbon backend until it was deprecated and removed for 64bit apps - but nowadays all work is on the Cocoa backend. Perhaps in the future BC will switch to the Cocoa backend and provide more "native" controls (and wont need to bundle Qt either).

elromulous 4y ago

I love BC. The merge view was such a revelation. If you've never used it, do yourself a favor and try it out.

chrsw 4y ago

It's decent. It's easy to use but it's getting a little old. And they still don't support line wrapping.

altano 4y ago

They have a great license too. I can bring my personal license to my work computers so it makes it a no-brainer to just buy the license and then use it everywhere. They recently made that one license work cross platform too, and retroactively upgraded my license for free.

ChrisRR 4y ago
I've done the same. Installed at home, on my work PC and laptop. So easy that I was happy to pay for it.