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When comparing diff-so-fancy vs difftastic, the Slant community recommends diff-so-fancy for most people. In the question“What are the best diff tools for Git?” diff-so-fancy is ranked 13th while difftastic is ranked 18th.
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LicenseMIT
PlatformsLinux, Mac, Windows
Side-by-side-viewyes
Syntax highlightingyes
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Pros
Pro UNIX command line differ compatible with version control tools
Pro Can diff directories
Pro Syntactic diffing
Down to a character.
Pro Cross platform
Linux, Mac and Windows.
Pro Supports over 20 languages (and some other syntax)
c, c++, c#, java, python, go, javascript, json, rust, sql, html, css and more.
See here.
Pro Language autodetection
Pro Has a manual
Pro Supports other version control tools
Like Mercurial.
Pro Works with Magit
Pro MIT license
Pro Has syntax highlighting
That can be turned off.
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