I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
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- 48629416
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- I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 22, 2026
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- Upvotes
- 50
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8476775956284153
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- ide components rewritten in rust
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight macOS native app focused purely on git diffs and commits can readily be built in a weekend using Tauri/Rust with git CLI or git2-rs bindings and prompt-driven coding.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: git add -p, VSCode, existing IDEs
Concerns raised: git add -p doesn't handle discontiguous lines or lines with irrelevant changes nearby, AI-generated code quality is poor and breaks outside narrow use cases, 120 fps scrolling metric seems irrelevant for non-game software, Frame rate drops and freezes with large files and syntax highlighting, Cannot build a competitive IDE in two days
Feature requests: Intel Mac support, Better handling of large files without performance degradation
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 204 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 205 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 234 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I built a tool to manage work and personal Git repos · hn · 2026-03-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- CodeDiff · hn · 2026-09-29 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- CommitGate · hn · 2026-06-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Deff · hn · 2026-02-26 · 120 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MyGitDiff · github · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Built a tool that turns your GitHub commits into build-in-public posts · hn · 2026-03-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Ec · hn · 2026-02-04 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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