Rev-dep
20x faster knip.dev alternative build in Go
Details
- External ID
- 47170299
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Rev-dep
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 46
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8039083557951483
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- fast dependency checking for javascript
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Static analysis of complex JavaScript/TypeScript module graphs and dead-code detection (knip alternative) requires parsing ASTs, resolving bundler alias configurations, and handling dynamic imports accurately.
What it would actually take: Requires writing or binding a fast AST parser (like oxc or swc in Rust/Go) and constructing a robust module dependency graph resolver covering monorepos, tsconfig paths, and framework plugins. A naive regex or shallow AST approach generated by vibe coding will fail on edge cases in large real-world JS ecosystems.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: knip, eslint, Biome
Concerns raised: Plugin system not feasible due to performance focus and Go compilation, JavaScript runtime tools are single-threaded and slow for large codebases, Deno support not confirmed to work, eslint removed APIs for unused code detection rules
Feature requests: Support for webpack.config.js parsing like knip plugins, Deno runtime support, Framework/build tool plugins with standard syntax beyond ESM
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 320 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #74 of 321 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 118 days after the earliest competitor.
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