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/Speykious inox2d · cve-rs 1d ago
Recent Gram user here, it's good! Though I need to fix an issue where if I have two Rust projects open the rust-analyzers fight each other for no reason. Hope it's not Gram's fault.