Racer VS intellij-rust

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

Racer

Rust Code Completion utility (by racer-rust)
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Racer intellij-rust
2 80
3,365 4,525
0.2% 0.1%
0.0 9.7
4 months ago 15 days ago
Rust Kotlin
MIT License 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.

intellij-rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of intellij-rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-09.

What are some alternatives?

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

Rust for Visual Studio Code

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

vscode-rust

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

helix - A post-modern modal text editor.

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

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

bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust

VisualRust - Visual Studio extension for Rust

RustDT