I am not a hardcore programmer, but anytime I code anything, I use vscodium. It is VScode without the microsoft telemetry.
That sounds great! Does it support the plugins as well?
It has the same plugin system, but they pull from Open VSX rather than Microsoft’s extension marketplace. If there’s an extension not available there, you can still download it from Microsoft’s marketplace and then add it manually.
It’s also possible to swap out the extension registry entirely and still use Microsoft’s marketplace instead of Open VSX in VSCodium.
I figured this was possible, but I guess I never searched for the solution. Thank you!
I love using helix. Not really an IDE, but since it has built-in support for language servers like rust-analyzer, it can do everything I need.
I’m just waiting for the inbuilt file explorer to stabilise. The only thing I miss is easy file navigation. The fuzzy searcher just isn’t what I want most of the time.
I see. I used to use things like nerdtree in vim, but when switching to helix I just accepted the fuzzy file search, and now I don’t see why I would ever need anything else to open files.
No one has said Emacs yet, I was a long time vim/neovim user but switched a couple of years ago, still learning rust but it’s been pretty comfy so far, plus I can wash my dishes in it.
Emacs is the best vim implementation.
Emacs is a great operating system but lacks a good text editor
IDK what you’re talking about, Vim runs great on there.
I use Emacs for just about everythinhg, including Rust dev. It’s fantastic!
VsCode because I’m basic like that :^)
Neovim all the way!
Rustanalyzer is seamless with it and I never have issues with multiple instances running
I also use Neovim with coc-rust-analyzer as my daily setup, although, for large projects, it eats up to 4GB of RAM :/
Wow crazy. I honestly couldn’t say what lsp settings I use. My personal config broke a while back and I use Astronvim now until I get to fixing it… Although so far its been good enough that I just dont bother moving back…
Yea, for me it’s also working pretty fast (unused ram is wasted ram anyway), just that I must always keep an eye on my RAM usage of my 10-year-old PC with 8GB of RAM and HDD only…
vscode. I think anything that supports LSP works well with rust, but my vscode setup is comfy enough and devcontainers are rather nice.
Helix, great out of the box experience and is written in Rust itself.
Neovim. Its awesome with the rust plugin. Everything works and it’s fast.
Could you share your config?
I switched to the built-in LSP but keep hitting small issues with changes to mappings, etc. and keeping rust-analyzer updated is a pain.
So now I just use vscode, even though I’d really like to have neovim set up for small things.
I used VSCode for a few months and tried the CLion free trial after missing some of the features from IntelliJ I use at work. I think CLion edges out just a little, but not by much. Both have some rough patches.
Next time I pick up a Rust project I want to try neovim; I keep ending in tutorial hell for vim and never actually building anything with it. But before that, I think I want to ditch my Windows OS all together and pick some Linux distro, something I’ve been putting off a very long time.
Helix text editor
I used to use CLion for rust but lately I’ve switched to VScode with rust-analyzer and it is pretty good, so I’ve more or less switched to it.
Also helix mentioned here looks interesting, I might try it out.
I’m not a rust dev but ran into Lapce recently which seemed to be vscode like IDE for rust made in Rust.
Once I started using CLion I couldn’t go back
Helix is neat but not a full IDE. After a while I’m much more efficient and basically don’t use the mouse anymore. https://helix-editor.com/
Neovim with coc-rust-analyzer.
There’s also coc-rls.
