cargo-watch VS rust-analyzer

Compare cargo-watch vs rust-analyzer and see what are their differences.

rust-analyzer

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

Posts with mentions or reviews of cargo-watch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-04.
  • Cryptoflow: Building a secure and scalable system with Axum and SvelteKit - Part 0
    12 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2024
    I used cargo-watch here so that every time my source changes, the server will automatically restart and re-serve the updated code.
  • Use just to manage Rust project commands
    3 projects | dev.to | 31 Aug 2023
    watch-one-test test_name: # More info on cargo test: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-test.html # More info on cargo watch: https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch cargo watch -x check -x 'test -- --test-threads=1 --nocapture {{test_name}}' -c -q
  • Functional Programming 1
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    Rust: RPDS https://docs.rs/rpds/latest/rpds/ and Im https://docs.rs/im/latest/im/

    Rust isn’t great for letting you do FP things like other languages, but it does have the best type system imho which makes it the leading functional programming language right now imho. If you’re not using too many specialized python packages then I recommend using Rust instead, even for toy demos, as you can be more confident your code works without needing to run it and wait for a crash like you would in debugging python, and the tests also run faster in rust due to the incremental compilation. Use cargo-watch and you can retest your code every time you save your work.

    https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch

    I usually write a make command to cargo watch and rerun each test file : code file pair independently so then you won’t rerun your tests in other modules when you change the one you work on (faster but might miss stuff if you change API contracts which touch other parts of your codebase)

  • Are there any continuous testing tools with real-time line-by-line IDE feedback for Rust?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 20 Apr 2023
    you can use cargo-watch to real time run tests on save in your attached vs code console session which is about as close to what you're asking as I think exists for rust
  • Why does the "crate" nomenclature include both "binary" and "library"?
    1 project | /r/rust | 2 Apr 2023
    Note that cargo, by virtue of being a package manager for a programming language, is primarily going to be dealing with library packages. That's not because it can't manage executables (see cargo-watch for a particularly useful example), it's just that it's less common.
  • Help me love Rust - compilation time
    6 projects | /r/rust | 19 Mar 2023
    Also check out cargo-watch -- https://crates.io/crates/cargo-watch
  • cargo-watch hangs on reload
    1 project | /r/rust | 3 Mar 2023
    Unless there's a new issue, I think this is what was here: https://github.com/watchexec/cargo-watch/issues/249
  • Cargo Watch 8.3.0
    1 project | /r/rust | 11 Jan 2023
  • Cargo Watch v8.2.0
    1 project | /r/rust | 29 Dec 2022
  • Creating Rest APIs with Rust
    1 project | dev.to | 12 Dec 2022
    A feature that I look for whenever possible in my development environment is Hot Reload, with it, every time a file is changed and saved the application restarts, so the cycle of writing-evaluating-refactoring code becomes extremely fast, for Rust, we have cargo watch, I suggest taking a look at the documentation for more details.

rust-analyzer

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust-analyzer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-17.
  • rust-analyzer changelog #177
    1 project | /r/rust | 17 Apr 2023
    #14561 map tokens from include! expansion to the included file
  • Make LSP-Rust-analyzer works
    1 project | /r/neovim | 2 Mar 2023
    return { tools = { -- autoSetHints = false, on_initialized = function() vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufWritePost", "BufEnter", "CursorHold", "InsertLeave" }, { pattern = { "*.rs" }, callback = function() vim.lsp.codelens.refresh() end, }) end, auto = false, inlay_hints = { -- Only show inlay hints for the current line only_current_line = false, auto = false, -- Event which triggers a refersh of the inlay hints. -- You can make this "CursorMoved" or "CursorMoved,CursorMovedI" but -- not that this may cause higher CPU usage. -- This option is only respected when only_current_line and -- autoSetHints both are true. only_current_line_autocmd = "CursorHold", -- whether to show parameter hints with the inlay hints or not -- default: true show_parameter_hints = false, -- whether to show variable name before type hints with the inlay hints or not -- default: false show_variable_name = false, -- prefix for parameter hints -- default: "<-" -- parameter_hints_prefix = "<- ", parameter_hints_prefix = " ", -- prefix for all the other hints (type, chaining) -- default: "=>" -- other_hints_prefix = "=> ", other_hints_prefix = " ", -- whether to align to the lenght of the longest line in the file max_len_align = false, -- padding from the left if max_len_align is true max_len_align_padding = 1, -- whether to align to the extreme right or not right_align = false, -- padding from the right if right_align is true right_align_padding = 7, -- The color of the hints highlight = "Comment", }, hover_actions = { auto_focus = false, border = "rounded", width = 60, -- height = 30, }, }, server = { --[[ $ mkdir -p ~/.local/bin $ curl -L https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/releases/latest/download/rust-analyzer-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.gz | gunzip -c - > ~/.local/bin/rust-analyzer $ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/rust-analyzer --]] -- cmd = { os.getenv "HOME" .. "/.local/bin/rust-analyzer" }, cmd = { os.getenv "HOME" .. "~/.cargo/bin/rust-analyzer" }, on_attach = require("user.lsp.handlers").on_attach, capabilities = require("user.lsp.handlers").capabilities, settings = { ["rust-analyzer"] = { lens = { enable = true, }, checkOnSave = { command = "clippy", }, }, }, }, }
  • rust-analyzer changelog #164
    3 projects | /r/rust | 17 Jan 2023
    I would like changes like https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/pull/13799 to be listed in 'Breaking Changes' category, to приманка draw the users' attention.
  • Mun v0.4.0 released
    4 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 13 Dec 2022
    For those of you who haven’t heard of Mun before, Mun is an embeddable programming language empowering creation through iteration. The idea to create Mun originated out of frustration with the Lua dynamic scripting language and a desire to have similar hot reloading functionality available in Rust. As such, it’s not a direct competitor with Rust, but instead is intended to be used with Rust (or C/C++) as a host/embedded language pairing. Actually, Mun is completely written in Rust, building on similar crates as rust-analyzer and rustc. Its key features include:
  • rust-analyzer changelog #159
    2 projects | /r/rust | 12 Dec 2022
    #13728 upgrade chalk to make solver fuel work again (works around most trait solving hangs).
  • rust-analyzer changelog #147
    1 project | /r/rust | 19 Sep 2022
    #13221 (first contribution) add option to move lenses above doc comments (rust-analyzer.lens.location):
  • Does Rust need proc-macros 2.0?
    2 projects | /r/rust | 27 Jul 2022
    Rust-analyzer has a good overview: https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/dev/syntax.md
  • rust-analyzer changelog #134
    7 projects | /r/rust | 20 Jun 2022
    #12517 (first contribution) fix completion for methods in trait generated by macro.
  • LSP Rust Analyzer keeps telling me `Error NO_RESULT_CALLBACK_FOUND`
    3 projects | /r/neovim | 12 Jun 2022
    -- all the opts to send to nvim-lspconfig -- these override the defaults set by rust-tools.nvim -- see https://github.com/neovim/nvim-lspconfig/blob/master/doc/server_configurations.md#rust_analyzer server = { -- on_attach is a callback called when the language server attachs to the buffer -- on_attach = on_attach, settings = { -- to enable rust-analyzer settings visit: -- https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/user/generated_config.adoc ["rust-analyzer"] = { -- enable clippy on save checkOnSave = { command = "clippy" }, assist = { importGranularity = "module", importPrefix = "self", }, cargo = { loadOutDirsFromCheck = true }, procMacro = { enable = true }, } } },
  • rust-analyzer changelog #130
    2 projects | /r/rust | 23 May 2022
    #12349 publish universal VSIX to make Code happy.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cargo-watch and rust-analyzer you can also consider the following projects:

cargo-check

vscode-rust - Rust extension for Visual Studio Code

cargo-multi - Extends cargo to execute the given command on multiple crates - upstream is at

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

cargo-count - a cargo subcommand for counting lines of code in Rust projects

intellij-rust - Rust plugin for the IntelliJ Platform

cargo-script - Cargo script subcommand

rustfmt - Format Rust code

Cargo - The Rust package manager

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

cargo-outdated - A cargo subcommand for displaying when Rust dependencies are out of date

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.