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Difftastic is a structural diff tool written in Rust that parses source files using syntax trees (via tree‑sitter) and produces human‑readable diffs at the expression level. It works across 30+ languages and emphasizes readability by aligning code structure rather than lines. Ideal for code review and understanding semantic changes.

Whatsdiff is a command-line tool built to help developers inspect and understand changes in project dependencies after running a package update (for Node.js with npm or PHP with Composer). Instead of just seeing version numbers scroll by, Whatsdiff allows you to compare the package-lock.json or composer.lock between commits, branches, or tags, and see exactly what changed in your dependencies—including version jumps, added or removed packages, churn, and often included changelogs. It offers...

tkdiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It provides a side-by-side view of the differences between two text files, along with several innovative features such as diff bookmarks, a graphical map of differences for quick navigation, and a facility for slicing diff regions to achieve exactly the merge output desired.

WinMerge is a Windows tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. It is highly useful for determining what has changed between file versions, and then merging those changes. WinMerge has Unicode support, Flexible syntax coloring editor, Visual SourceSafe integration, and Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering for filenames and lines. Side-by-side line difference and highlights differences inside lines. A file map shows the overall file differences in...

Produces a succinct comparison of two Linux kernel configuration files, showing added, removed and changed settings, in an indented layout reflecting the configurator menus. The resulting text file is coloured when the output is to a terminal; the colours can be retained when redirecting the output to a file or pipe. Now comes with a program to extract configuration variable names and their prompts from their kernel build system, to create a symbol table. The comparison program can use...

WinMergeX is a branch of the WinMerge visual diff tool. It is a MS-Windows diff tool allowing merge of individual files.