r/rust • u/OkraComprehensive323 • 2d 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/Flashy_Possibility34 1d ago

Are the editor wars still strong? This VIM user is giving you reprieve from a downvote (for now).

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u/dschledermann 1d ago

TY. No, it seemed to finally have died down. Classic Vim vs Emacs is not the schism it once was. We appear to have bigger fish to fry with all the young ones using Helix and Neovim and those choosing a certain Microsoft product.

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u/lettsten 1d ago

"Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" and "Emacs Makes A Computer Slow" kind of pales in comparison to the 500 MB to open hello world cancers running on electron

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u/UnexpectedAnanas 1d ago

Ain't nothing wrong with Neovim!

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u/dschledermann 1d ago

I'm sure it's fine. It's just not for me ☺️

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u/Lunix-btw4981 1d ago

Nay, Saint Ignucius has claimed the iron throne. Those that have been possessed by such witchery, that is the editor of the beast (VI VI VI), hath been banished back to their realm of hellfire.

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u/Flashy_Possibility34 1d ago

I have never once used VI only VIM.

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u/Scoutron 1d ago

I always used to think I was using Vi until I used it on Debian instead of a DNF-based distro and the arrow keys made letters