axil
A terminal user-interface for treesitter
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I initially wrote axil to help inspect and run queries against syntax trees for my treesitter-based language server implementation (https://github.com/terror/just-lsp), and have been working toward making this into something more useable :)
HN · launched Mar 30, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal user interface tools · 86 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Axil is a TUI wrapper around tree-sitter parse trees and queries, which can be easily implemented in Rust (with Ratatui) or Go (with Bubbletea) using existing tree-sitter bindings.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 127 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #114 of 128 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 145 days after the earliest competitor.
- beet · github · 2026-10-07 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- shell-lsp · github · 2026-10-10 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- I ported Tree-sitter to Go · hn · 2026-02-25 · 222 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- CodeRLM · hn · 2026-02-11 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- wisp · github · 2026-09-14 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Ane, a new chord-based terminal code editor with one-shot CLI edits · hn · 2026-05-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Axiom · hn · 2026-02-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Wosp · hn · 2025-11-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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