I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
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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.
HN · launched Jun 22, 2026 · 50 upvotes (top 15%) · 0 views
Niche: git management and workflow tools · 221 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · 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 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
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Attention rank: #77 of 455 (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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