ACAV v1.0.0: an open-source GUI tool for exploring Clang ASTs in C/C++ projects

I am the author of ACAV, the Aurora Clang AST Viewer, and I have just made the first public release, v1.0.0.

ACAV is an open-source Qt desktop application for exploring Clang ASTs in C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ projects that provide a `compile_commands.json` compilation database.

It supports source-to-AST navigation, AST-node search, source-code search, declaration-context views, selected-subtree JSON export, and background AST generation/caching.



Links:

\- GitHub: https://github.com/uvic-aurora/acav

\- Release: https://github.com/uvic-aurora/acav/releases/tag/v1.0.0

\- Manual: https://uvic-aurora.github.io/acav-manual/index.html

\- Demo video: https://youtu.be/0M7dYAlnrTI

There are also prebuilt Docker/Podman demo images for LLVM 20, 21, and 22.

https://github.com/uvic-aurora/acav/pkgs/container/acav


I would appreciate feedback from C++ users, especially anyone who works with Clang tooling or wants a more visual way to inspect ASTs.





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