Comment on Best free (preferably FOSS) Rust IDE for MacOS
dukk@programming.dev 1 year ago
rust-analyzer is a pretty good LSP, and works in most modern text editors.
My advice? Just pick an editor and stick to it.
VSCode? Sure.
Jetbrains? Good choice.
Hell, Emacs? Why not?
I personally use Neovim, and it just works. No matter what I’m programming in, I’m still at home.
Just pick an editor that works for you. I’d suggest VSCode. Use VSCodium for a true FOSS experience, or Helix for a beginner friendly terminal editor.
If you really just want something Rust-focused, there’s RustRover from Jetbrains, but that’s about it.
shagie@programming.dev 1 year ago
They’ve recently released a Rust specific IDE - www.jetbrains.com/rust/
Knusper@feddit.de 1 year ago
…which is proprietary.
Turun@feddit.de 1 year ago
As are all their products.
And it will be freaking awesome, as are all their products.
Knusper@feddit.de 1 year ago
I mean, I mostly wanted to point that out because OP prefers FOSS, but I did think at least their IntelliJ Community Edition was open-source.
But I just checked their website and it says “Free, built on open source”, arguably the worst option, although I guess, it’s what the MIT folks want.
I just hate how people overwhelmingly recommend proprietary editors. It’s the one thing you’d think the FOSS community should be exceedingly good at.
dukk@programming.dev 1 year ago
Yeah, I mention that later in the comment. Of course, there’s the whole suite of Jetbrains editors.