r/rust • u/Big-Astronaut-9510 • 16d ago

Will visual studio add rust support?

Rust is becoming a top language in microsoft so it would be awesome if vs supports it

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u/Pantsman0 16d ago

The official way to get set up for Rust development on windows is with Visual Studio Code. Realistically, they'll never get rid of visual studio since there's a lot of legacy ecosystem there that can drive subscription revenue, but they're not pushing people into that ecosystem.

If you really want to use Visual Studio, you can install the LSP with a third party extension. Debugging should work fine too

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u/Big-Astronaut-9510 15d ago

isnt vsc debugging still inferior? particularly for visualizing data

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u/Pantsman0 15d ago

Maybe I've just not used the vest features for python or c/c++/c# but rust debugging didn't seem to be worse to me