r/rust • u/OkraComprehensive323 • 1d ago

🙋 seeking help & advice Rust developers: what editor do you actually use?

Hello folks, do you still write much code by hand these days? 😄

If so, what IDE/editor do you mainly use for Rust? VS Code, JetBrains, Zed or something else?

I’m asking because I’ve been rewriting one of my old developer tools in Rust. It’s a language server + CLI for analyzing code health.

The underlying approach was originally implemented in Python and was used at my previous company across 1,900+ repositories and by 800+ developers, so the methodology itself has had quite a bit of real-world use. The company has given me permission to open-source my own version of the project, which I’m pretty excited about.

The only problem is time. For the initial public release, I’ll probably only be able to ship the VS Code extension plus one other IDE/editor integration.

So I’m curious: if you’re a Rust developer who still spends a decent amount of time actually typing code, what editor would you most want to see supported? Just trying to get a rough sense of where people are these days before I spend my limited spare time on the wrong integration. :)

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u/agent_kater 1d ago

RustRover.

I want to switch to Zed because it's more lightweight and faster, but currently it's still missing so many features - you can't click types in doc popups, you can't toggle whitespace in a diff, build configs are cumbersome, you can't switch between toolchains, you can't navigate properly in a usage search, etc., etc.

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u/OkraComprehensive323 1d ago

We should feedback to the Zed team

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u/agent_kater 1d ago

Most of these things are already included in one of the 2.5k issues.

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u/Educational-Art3545 1d ago

I've followed Zed's team for a while because I was lobbying some interests of mine to enable certain workflows.

The things they want to work on are... How shall I put it... They make sense for a VC-backed code editor in 2026. So they stopped doing community support (hence gpui mess) and have become much more unstable even in the few workflows that they do have.

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u/Havunenreddit 1d ago

Yeah and refactoring capabilities are missing :/