Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust)(github.com)
68 pointsby 0xdeadf1sh5 hours ago7 comments
  • waschl34 minutes ago
    +1 only because of the seemingly non-AI README. Such a joy to get the core info in one glimpse
    • 0xdeadf1sh2 minutes ago
      The whole reason this extension exists is to help me with my non-AI hobby projects like path tracer in C, and my C++ Vulkan renderer.

      I don't think this extension is valuable for people who use agents to code.

  • evmar3 hours ago
    https://github.com/pacak/cargo-show-asm is a nice helper for the Rust->asm part of this that has seen a decent amount of work for handling all the edge cases. (I've contributed a bit to it to handle some Windows issues.)
  • bajard3 hours ago
    Maybe I should say Compiler Explorer instead of Godbolt.

    This should be mandatory for any programming environment, along with a CPU emulator showing how data moves through the ALU, and all the ports, to which registers it goes to, and how everything works clock by clock.

    I hope AI makes this possible, at least for VS Code and C++.

    • rpqtan hour ago
      Yeah there is so much to do on the visualization side! I know people who still draw these things on paper and count cycles by hand.
      • 0c3ca8324 minutes ago
        Paper is a medium of thought, and writing without a computer is still one of the best ways to slow down and organize your mind.

        I still write code out on paper as I think through algorithms.

    • bee_rider20 minutes ago
      Modern cores are quite wide, I don’t know if my monitor is big enough to show this info for all the in-flight instructions…
  • ivanjermakov3 hours ago
    I usually want to see assembly during debugging, not development. For which rad debugger is a must (now on Linux!): https://github.com/EpicGames/raddebugger
  • shmerl4 hours ago
    That's interesting. There is also https://codeberg.org/Jorenar/nvim-dap-disasm if you want to get it for actual compiled result + debugger.
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  • FirstClassTree40 minutes ago
    genuinely asking, but isn't today the AI writing the code?
    • 0xdeadf1sh32 minutes ago
      I've made this for my hobby projects where I still get to write the code manually. If you are using agentic coding then you don't need neovim to begin with.
    • FirstClassTree38 minutes ago
      I mean I'm not a nub I know C and has a degree in CS and stuff, worked at Microsoft
      • FirstClassTree37 minutes ago
        I also use VIM for my Obsidian note taking, which kind of replaces my code writing
    • swatcoder15 minutes ago
      Some of the code, some of the time, for some of the people.

      Yet far from all of the code, all of the time, for all of the people.

      People just like to talk it up, especially if they've been able to let it take over they're own coding. And some people work and chat in bubbles where they only know people working similarly to themselves.

    • 0c3ca8323 minutes ago
      It's certainly making the business decisions, at least. It's incredible how many CEOs admit that their decisions came from asking ChatGPT.