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Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by akshaysg »

bern4444 wrote: post #17

I downloaded this and opened up a React based project that uses functions and not classes. I'm not seeing the sideways facing arrows to show the call stack of the function I'm looking at and have my cursor in - the functions that call the function I'm looking at and the functions that reference the function I'm looking at. It seems the sideways arrows in the demo only appear for class based methods and not plain func…

Sorry for the frustrating behavior. It should actually work for plain functions and I just tested with a TSX component we use. I think something went wrong here.

Are you using JSX components? I'll try to repro this on my end.

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by bern4444 »

akshaysg wrote: post #21
bern4444 wrote: post #17

I downloaded this and opened up a React based project that uses functions and not classes. I'm not seeing the sideways facing arrows to show the call stack of the function I'm looking at and have my cursor in - the functions that call the function I'm looking at and the functions that reference the function I'm looking at. It seems the sideways arrows in the demo only appear for class based methods and not plain func…

Sorry for the frustrating behavior. It should actually work for plain functions and I just tested with a TSX component we use. I think something went wrong here. Are you using JSX components? I'll try to repro this on my end.

I'm using a mix of TSX/JSX/TS/JS. I wasn't seeing it working for any of the functions (component or plain JS) I have unfortunately. Will keep an eye out for any updates you make to resolve this!

Awesome project and great work on it! Congrats on the launch :)

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by akshaysg »

karolist wrote: post #20

Congrats on the launch. I've actually been going in a totally separate direction lately, it helps with my focus and ADHD tendencies to jump around and get overwhelmed. 1. One window. 2. Minimal everything. 3. Most importantly, no tree navigation. If I need to jump to a file, I either use recents menu in Intellij or use file markers to jump to it, means I have to remember the filemarker and have intent to go there (I'…

Makes sense! Curious how you use LLMs to guide you around?

In my own experience, I ask the LLM where a functional flow is and it does a great job of creating an entrypoint, but I frequently have to figure out the finer details myself and sometimes the LLM points to something related, but not quite what I was looking for.

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by akshaysg »

KronisLV wrote: post #18

This is pretty cool! Reminds me of the now defunct SourceTrail tool: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail Actually, seeing lines between the code and where you opened it from would most likely be useful!

Yes we were definitely inspired by SourceTrail! Will add to the feature list!

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by soulofmischief »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #14

Namespace conflict, and yes it does matter. Just as "mamba" was an anaconda package manager re-implementation before it got commandeered by the LLM research crowd, now Haystack is being stolen away from Deepset: https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack https://haystack.deepset.ai/

This is why we have trademark systems. Name conflicts are allowed for commercial use if the purpose and presentation are clearly delineated from competitors. For non-commercial use... who cares? No one is "stealing" words.

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by leetrout »

akshaysg wrote: post #4
ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #2

You should definitely check out Understand https://scitools.com/features , if you haven't already.

I did not know about Understand. This is really cool -- thank you! I really like how Understand enables you to understand how many upstream dependencies you may need to change when refactoring. We hope to push it to the next level by helping do those refactors for you in an understandable way!

You can certainly push it a different direction with accessible pricing models. No matter how cool / useful Understand actually is $1,000 / year for an indie dev is too high.

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by pavel_lishin »

> We do not store or log your code anywhere. We do send snippets of your code to Open AI as input for our navigational copilot. We'll add an option to disable this soon.

I look forward to checking this out once that option is in place.

Re: Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

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Post by dang »

tamimio wrote: post #25

I think the title should make it clear it’s macOS only, before getting my hopes high to test it out, it looks interesting nonetheless.

I added that to the text above. Sentence taken from https://haystackeditor.com/#faq. Hope this helps.
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