bonsai-lint
Multi-language cognitive complexity linter, in one binary
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Details
- External ID
- 1271458
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- bonsai-lint
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
A multi-language cognitive complexity linter in one 2 MB Rust binary. It ranks the functions that are hardest to read, scans 1.26M lines in under a second and never runs your code. Baseline today's debt and CI fails only on regressions.
Enrichment
- Niche
- developer tools and programming languages
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- multi-language cognitive complexity linter
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While cognitive complexity formulas are well-documented, compiling AST grammars across multiple languages into a single high-performance 2 MB Rust binary scanning over 1M lines/sec requires specialized compiler tooling and systems programming.
What it would actually take: A real version requires embedding or linking Tree-sitter parsers for multiple programming languages into a unified Rust CLI, implementing recursive AST traversal to compute Sonar-style cognitive complexity scores. The hard part is managing binary size constraints while maintaining multi-language parser coverage, zero-copy performance, and regression baselining across divergent syntax trees. This requires experienced Rust developers with AST/compiler engineering backgrounds.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 36 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 37 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
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