intellij-rust VS helix

We’ll also consider the cases when IntelliJ IDEA licenses were primarily bought for Rust development with the IntelliJ Rust plugin and which options we can suggest to our users in these cases. Please stay tuned!

https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/10867#...

Last time I tried this, the plugin was incapable of actually showing compile errors in the project view and they said their false positive error rate was too high to enable it (https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/pull/8373). That was a dealbreaker for me compared to VSCode.

Intellgi Rust is a good option.

Thank you all for the assist. Yep, not just a newbie issue which is surprising. :^) https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/10483

Warning about Unused_labels and implementation of MIR Now things are getting interesting

Agreed. Specifically, I've found the intellij rust plugin on top of Clion to be great.

figure out testing, you probably want to structure your app in a way that allows you to run it in testing (Zero to Production has a great approach to that). There are helpers for testing like sqlx::test but CLion Rust plugin doesn't support them yet, it breaks code analysis (afaik the fix is not released yet).

Any closer to getting error highlighting on files working properly (https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/pull/8373)? That's a major benefit of rust-analyzer to me.

Could you please clarify whether the problem affects exactly local variables' values or function parameters' values? It is a known bug that the CLion's debugger cannot show function parameters' values on Windows: https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/6676. This is a major issue and we are working on it. But if you are facing such problems in any other scenarios, please let us know and share a problematic code snippet if possible

I’m not sure. Command based editing opens more doors than just optimizing keystrokes. There are edits I somewhat regularly do with Vim macros that save me minutes of typing and cognitive burden of examining refactor locations. It’s probably not going to be make or break, but I do think it’s significant in a p > 0.05 sense.

I imagine Vim is only just a local optima too. There are newer editors [0] that are more AST aware that I haven’t been able to fairly evaluate yet (not in the boring corp approved software list).

[0]: https://helix-editor.com/

Likely soon: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/8675#issuecomment...

My initial point was just that it's kind of nice to have something that's usable from the get-go. I don't miss my giant vim config one bit.

If you're using the Helix Editor — the lightning-fast, modal, and fully-native code editor — you probably already appreciate its clean interface and modern features. But let’s be honest: theming matters.

Over the past 5 years, I have worked primarily with Rust, Golang, Python and Typescript. I have built and maintained various services and tools, ranging from internal utilities to services used by millions of users. For most of my career I have worked remotely, collaborating across various timezones. I like to work in environments with good engineering culture.

As a fellow hn reader you might be particularly interested in

- Lox Language Interpreters: https://github.com/nkitsaini/lox

- Contribution to uv: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/11738

- Contribution to Helix Editor: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/9660

- Solutions to protohackers: https://github.com/nkitsaini/protohackers_impl

You can find more details in the resume at https://nkit.dev/resume.pdf

Nearly all my developer tools are open-source projects written in Rust (Nushell, Helix, WezTerm, and more).

The Helix editor, a popular alternative to Vim, is going to implementing it's plugin system in a Scheme-like language. Helix is also written in Rust.

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/3806#discu...

https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/pull/12527

Editors: Helix, NeoVim, Vim, Visual Studio Code

While design is an important part to some degree, there is something more that I've become observing and, therefore, liking lately: the reasonable default configs of the apps, which mean that the majority of the users will never need to mess with configs at all. Here is a great post by Arne about this trend which lists such tools like Fish (mentioned above), Helix, Lazygit, Zellij, k9s, etc. And that a very user-friendly approach: install and use right away! I believe that Ghostty would be a good addition to the list. For example: