> you didn’t suggest a better delete symbol Someone else already pointed out the existing "plain word diff" syntax[1] that (a) is actually more human-friendly

> you didn’t suggest a better delete symbol Someone else already pointed out the existing "plain word diff" syntax[1] that (a) is actually more human-friendly and (b) neither you nor the other respondent actually addressed—you both just pirouetted around it while hoping that no one would notice, I guess (by changing the subject to how bad Git and GitHub are—true, but completely irrelevant to the merit of using --[foo]-- over [-foo-]). > One would be ~~[ ]~~ That would be genuinely terrible—for basically the same reasons that --[foo]-- is worse than [-foo-], but more extreme. > it works better for the extremely online I thought this was supposed to be designed for actual human beings? 1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38791539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38791539>