Show HN: Twain, a diff viewer like Meld, but for the age of AI

Category: devtools

Tags: diff-viewer, git, ai, rust, gui

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 5, Utility: 5)

Twain is a Rust-based GUI diff viewer inspired by Meld, adding AI-friendly commenting and a unified view of all git diffs with a file tree. It leverages tree-sitter for syntax highlighting and allows AI agents to participate via CLI comments.

Target audience: developers

Repository: https://github.com/andunieee/twain · Rust · GPL-3.0 · 6 stars

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