alt Hacker NewsShow HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
I don't know Rust.
Friday after work I realised that 90% of my IDE time now is just the commit/diff view — and even good IDEs feel heavy for that.
So over the weekend I built a dedicated native tool for just that. Kyde is a macOS git commit + diff editor with one goal: be fast, do Git well.
I'm curious whether anyone else mostly opens their IDE for git operations these days.
It's open source, and there's a signed app in Releases.
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Forced dark theme -- please don't punish me for having astigmatism--can't do dark mode
What might you build when you let Claude take care of commits? :-)
This is basically what the agentic apps do already right? Like Codex, Claude Desktop, Copilot etc. Except with those I can also write commands to the AI as well as review their output all in one app rather than multiple.
great idea! this use case is the only reason left why I start VS codium.
This is amazing and I will use this! Does it support git submodules? I like how VSCode divides changes into buckets across all git repos in current workspace, I can commit each separately from one sidebar.
Why would you choose to have the ai use a language you don't understand? Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?
Is this something you expect other people to use?
Are you planning to maintain this?
Are you making a point about ai capabilities?
Is this just a joke?
I guess I don't really understand the point of posts like this.
The primary value of IDEs in the agentic era are: debugging, code review (with good diffing), and management of the agent’s context. I also use mine for browsing databases, but not everyone does that.
You seem to have one of those three. I’m not sure what your coding background is, but debuggers/profilers are incredibly useful and important, and it’s essentially malpractice for a developer never to use them.
Actual title: I had Claude code up a diff tool in Rust over the weekend
My guess is this made it to the front page solely from the Rust boost.
I like how it looks.
But the terminal already has excellent diff and commit tools.