Racer VS vscode-rust

Compare Racer vs vscode-rust and see what are their differences.

Racer

Rust Code Completion utility (by racer-rust)
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Racer vscode-rust
2 0
3,365 486
0.2% -
0.0 0.0
4 months ago -
Rust TypeScript
MIT License -
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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.

vscode-rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning vscode-rust yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Racer and vscode-rust you can also consider the following projects:

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

intellij-rust - Rust plugin for the IntelliJ Platform

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

rustfmt - Format Rust code

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

Rust for Visual Studio Code

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

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

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

tarpaulin - A code coverage tool for Rust projects