AL Explorer: Browsing .app Packages Without the Wait
A terminal UI for browsing Business Central .app package symbols. Sub-millisecond lookups on 30k+ objects because it shares the LSP daemon's warm index.
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Brad Fullwood Rust TUI AL +1
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AL Tools
Tree-sitter grammar, CLI, MCP server, TUI explorer, and LSP. The toolchain that makes AL development work outside VS Code.
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A set of tools built in Rust and C that give you AL language support anywhere. The tree-sitter grammar parses AL with 98%+ accuracy. The CLI gives you build, test, and trace commands in the terminal. The MCP server lets AI agents query your symbols and event graphs. The TUI explorer browses .app packages interactively. Everything connects to a shared daemon over Unix sockets.
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