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Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2021-09-24 · latest 2026-01-22

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  1. …in order to highlight all the code that either influences or is influenced by that expression: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry
    comment by kibwen · 2026-01-22 · in Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
  2. Rust's type system specifically facilitates more powerful tools: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry
    comment by sn9 · 2025-10-31 · in John Carmack on mutable variables
  3. Explained in README: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry#why-isnt-flowistry...
    comment by pveierland · 2025-10-18 · in Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
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    Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
    story by Bogdanp · 2025-10-18 · 35 comments
  5. …ithub.com/cognitive-engineering-lab/argus that rely on creating buffers with custom UI, and Flowistry https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry that rely on graying out some code, and I want this stuff on Zed too
    comment by nextaccountic · 2025-10-18 · in Codex Is Live in Zed
  6. …you can do in most IDEs but it actually does information flow analysis on the code. [1]: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry
    comment by tschumacher · 2025-10-16 · in Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)
  7. On the topic of Rust IDE plugins that give you more senses, take a look at Flowistry: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry . It's not AI, it's using information flow analysis.
    comment by kibwen · 2025-07-28 · in Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
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    An IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code
    story by wspeirs · 2023-12-15 · 0 comments
  9. …Rust might be heading somewhere interesting with tooling, with tools like Flowistry existing ( https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry ) showing what is possible. It's a plugin that can compute backwards / forwards static slices for you,…
    comment by oxff · 2022-02-16 · in Learn You an Agda (2014)
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    Flowistry helps you understand Rust programs with program analysis
    story by ibraheemdev · 2021-09-28 · 18 comments
  11. Will Crichton just open sourced flowistry for Rust: https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry It's a vscode plugin that analyzes the data flow graph, and lets you do things like highlight statements that depend on the current one, etc.
    comment by habitue · 2021-09-24 · in Discontinue Sourcetrail