cargo-deb VS Racer

Compare cargo-deb vs Racer and see what are their differences.

cargo-deb

A cargo subcommand that generates Debian packages from information in Cargo.toml (by mmstick)

Racer

Rust Code Completion utility (by racer-rust)
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cargo-deb Racer
7 2
629 3,365
- 0.2%
1.1 0.0
over 2 years ago 4 months ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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cargo-deb

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-deb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
  • GitUI
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
    I mean, there's tools that make it easy to make a .deb https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb

    The Rust Project itself had put a lot of work into making sure that Rust and Rust-using programs could get into Debian by working with Debian folks to address issues.

    I suspect that you've run into an anecdotal pattern, but I'm not sure that it is more than that.

  • What are some useful tools for Rust?
    10 projects | /r/rust | 3 May 2023
    I use Cargo deb to create Debian / Ubuntu / ... package files.
  • Introducing runst: A dead simple notification daemon written in Rust
    6 projects | /r/rust | 5 Mar 2023
    As a suggestion if you want to get a lot of users you could make a .deb file that packages the binary and a systemd service file. Using cargo-deb it's pretty trivial, the hardest part would be writing your systemd service file and you can probably just copy the dunst.service file with minimal modification:
  • Have you guys tried cargo-deb? Amazing!
    3 projects | /r/rust | 17 May 2022
    https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb https://github.com/kornelski/cargo-deb
  • Rustup, Cargo, Rustc??
    2 projects | /r/rust | 1 Mar 2021
    cargo install does provide different options to change the installation dir (https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-install.html) but I am uncertain, if there could be accociated issues. An alternative could be tools like https://github.com/mmstick/cargo-deb or https://github.com/iqlusioninc/cargo-rpm that can automatically create packages which can be used for a proper installation /usr/bin/ using your distributions packaging system.
  • Debian Discusses Vendoring–Again
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2021
    Cargo already has one: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb

Racer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Racer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-17.
  • rust-analyzer changelog #113
    4 projects | /r/rust | 17 Jan 2022
    On the server side, things are better, but RLS is still using racer for completions, which was never quite precise for me, and has a big disclaimer of "use rust-analyzer instead" in the README.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cargo-deb and Racer you can also consider the following projects:

cargo-update - A cargo subcommand for checking and applying updates to installed executables

Rust Language Server - Repository for the Rust Language Server (aka RLS)

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs

cargo-ebuild - cargo extension that can generate ebuilds using the in-tree eclasses

vscode-rust

Clippy - A bunch of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code. Book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/clippy/

Rustup - The Rust toolchain installer

cargo-make - Rust task runner and build tool.

neon - Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules.

rustfmt - Format Rust code

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim