RustDiff is a native desktop application for comparing JSON and XML files semantically rather than just line by line.
It’s built with GTK4 and Libadwaita, and provides side-by-side editors with syntax highlighting, automatic comparison while typing, and a structured table of differences. The application can compare JSON objects and arrays, XML nodes, attributes, and text, making it useful for inspecting configuration changes, schemas, structured data exports, and other machine-readable documents.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Compare JSON and XML documents semantically.
- Use side-by-side editors with syntax highlighting.
- Automatically compare content while typing with debounce support.
- Run manual comparisons with a keyboard shortcut.
- View differences in a filterable table.
- Jump directly from a listed difference to the relevant document location.
- Export comparison results to plain text and styled HTML files.
- Save session history in a local SQLite database.
- Pretty-print both editor panels from the keyboard.
Website: github.com/jereok91/rustdiff
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Developer: jereok91
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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