> I wish government legislature did this with their bills. Reading a piece of legislation is maddening because it's always just a description of diffs, without

> I wish government legislature did this with their bills. Reading a piece of legislation is maddening because it's always just a description of diffs, without seeing the final outcome. The state of Washington does. Our legal code is called the "Revised Code of Washington" because there is a state employee, called the Code Reviser, whose job description is "apply the diffs": http://www.leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/ http://www.leg.wa.gov/CodeReviser/ It sounds a bit silly at first but having gotten used to having instant access to the end product I think this is an excellent use of my tax dollars. https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/ https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/ They do a great job, too. Each section/subsection of the RCW comes with links to the bills which revised it, and each of those is formatted using strikeouts (removed text) and underlines (added text). The federal government should be embarrassed by this.