There is a diff tool called difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic The idea is that it does not show diff base

There is a diff tool called difftastic: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic The idea is that it does not show diff based on text change, but on syntastic meaning. For that, it uses tree-sitter. I think it still shows the trailing comma in the situation as shown in the article, but it's quite different experience than the standard text based diff.