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Jet Brains joins the Rust Federation and announces a standalone Rust IDE, Rust Rover
(blog.jetbrains.com)
Nice to see that they have trust in Rust!
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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They also have rust in trust
So, if I'm paying only for IDEA, I'm stuck in java and kotlin and have to pay extra to write rust? You know rust code intelligence is just as good in VSCode right? For Free?
You usually can install plugins (it's been a long time since I looked into it, so the situation might have changed) to have support for other languages and "convert" it, but doesn't work as good as their standalone versions as they are a bit more integrated and better configured out of the box imo
At least when I tried with CLion, it wasn't possible to get it to support both Rust and Kotlin simultaneously. You can get both in IntelliJ with the Rust plugin, but it didn't work well when I attempted it. I have to use both Rust and Kotlin in the same project at work every day, so I end up switching between IntelliJ and VSCode constantly. Worse, it's a multi-workspace project, so I even have to use several VSCode windows and switch between them, or rust-analyzer refuses to work. It's so easy to get lost in the sea of identical looking code windows. Not ideal 😔
YMMV but I use https://github.com/johnpapa/vscode-peacock to differentiate multiple windows in VSCode.
@aggelalex @asal the code editor market is weird. Microsoft made a really good editor with a really large ecosystem and made it all free. That makes it really hard to justify paying for an IDE these days.
Even when I was able to get a license through University, I eventually switched to VSCode just to avoid the hassle of verifying my license.
Federation? Glad to hear they finally cracked FTL space travel.
A lot of people here are missing the point.
Yes, it might not be a compelling offering right now. That's why it will be a free beta.
By the time this is actually released, it will have features you can't live without, just like all their other IDE's.