Actual title: I had Claude code up a diff tool in Rust over the weekend
My guess is this made it to the front page solely from the Rust boost.
Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
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Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#12This is basically what the agentic apps do already right? Like Codex, Claude Desktop, Copilot etc. Except with those I can also write commands to the AI as well as review their output all in one app rather than multiple.
Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#13Actual title: I had Claude code up a diff tool in Rust over the weekend My guess is this made it to the front page solely from the Rust boost.
> I had Claude code up
What's the difference?
Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#14The primary value of IDEs in the agentic era are: debugging, code review (with good diffing), and management of the agent’s context. I also use mine for browsing databases, but not everyone does that. You seem to have one of those three. I’m not sure what your coding background is, but debuggers/profilers are incredibly useful and important, and it’s essentially malpractice for a developer never to use them.
I got out of the habit of leaning on debuggers with first making sure I'm not lacking in logging. I can't remember the last time I actually needed to set a break point.
Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#15The primary value of IDEs in the agentic era are: debugging, code review (with good diffing), and management of the agent’s context. I also use mine for browsing databases, but not everyone does that. You seem to have one of those three. I’m not sure what your coding background is, but debuggers/profilers are incredibly useful and important, and it’s essentially malpractice for a developer never to use them.
>but debuggers/profilers are incredibly useful and important, and it’s essentially malpractice for a developer never to use them.
Just wait for the moment you need to write code for an embedded platform that doesn't have a debugging mechanism.
I've been programming for more than 30 years. Funnily, I used to use debuggers A LOT (in Borland Turbo C++ DOS "IDE" times, Visual Basic, Eclipse, Netbeans, Adobe Flash Builder, etc). But nowadays I seldomly use the debugger, if at all.
Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#16This is amazing and I will use this! Does it support git submodules? I like how VSCode divides changes into buckets across all git repos in current workspace, I can commit each separately from one sidebar.
Hey! That's actually something I haven't checked, none of my active projects use them. I expect it won't break but I haven't designed the diff to account for that. I will take a look though it's a great point.
Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#17This is amazing and I will use this! Does it support git submodules? I like how VSCode divides changes into buckets across all git repos in current workspace, I can commit each separately from one sidebar.
Hey! That's actually something I haven't checked, none of my active projects use them. I expect it won't break but I haven't designed the diff to account for that. I will take a look though it's a great point.
Great. Otherwise I will find time to send a PR sometime.
Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey! That's actually something I haven't checked, none of my active projects use them. I expect it won't break but I haven't designed the diff to account for that. I will take a look though it's a great point.
Great. Otherwise I will find time to send a PR sometime.
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Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#19Actual title: I had Claude code up a diff tool in Rust over the weekend My guess is this made it to the front page solely from the Rust boost.
> I had Claude code up What's the difference?
The difference is that the resulting software is useless, buggy, unpolished, will only be used by the person who prompted it and only for about three days before they get tired of it, and that nothing was learned.
Re: Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
#20The primary value of IDEs in the agentic era are: debugging, code review (with good diffing), and management of the agent’s context. I also use mine for browsing databases, but not everyone does that. You seem to have one of those three. I’m not sure what your coding background is, but debuggers/profilers are incredibly useful and important, and it’s essentially malpractice for a developer never to use them.
what kind of noob uses debugger from within their IDE?