🐛 Memory allocation error on Windows

[ofek]

Delta: 0.18.2
Windows: 11

The recommended solution in the other issues does not work because building triggers the same behavior. Can nothing be done to fix this permanently on Delta's side?

[dandavison]

Hi @ofek. Is the problem here that your bat version is creating binary assets that are incompatible with delta? Can you post your bat version and try upgrading bat?

Delta uses the syntax-highlighting assets maintained by the bat project; I think that's fairly set in stone -- it's very valuable hard work done by the bat team and we don't want to maintain a fork of them. By default this works without risk for delta, since the assets are installed as a library. However when building custom assets (which uses the bat toolchain) there is a risk of version clashes.

Perhaps there is a development path in which delta adds its own asset-building toolchain, (essentially copied from bat), while continuing to share the asset repository, and delta thus uses a separate on-disk location for the assets.

[ofek]

My apologies, indeed upgrading bat resolved the issue. Thank you!

[dandavison]

No problem! We should maybe have a "troubleshooting" section in the manual with if-this-then-maybe-that recipes. But I'm inclined to think the best solution is for someone to continue the delta doctor work started in #1193