Racer VS neon

Compare Racer vs neon and see what are their differences.

Racer

Rust Code Completion utility (by racer-rust)

neon

Rust bindings for writing safe and fast native Node.js modules. (by neon-bindings)
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Racer neon
2 19
3,362 7,770
0.0% 0.7%
0.0 6.3
5 months ago 7 days ago
Rust Rust
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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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.
  • Disable Racer and eldoc?
    1 project | /r/DoomEmacs | 5 Feb 2022
    I recently have decided to switch to it full time, and I've encountered some annoyances while developing in Rust in it. The default rust setup uses eldoc combined with racer, which has been deprecated for a while now, for auto completion and stuff like that.
  • 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.

neon

Posts with mentions or reviews of neon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.
  • We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    Great interview!

    Love how much thought is being put into what you “gold-plate”. I’ve always felt that my best work comes around on round two (or three or four…).

    Curious what you are planning for the ability to script the configuration? I haven’t played with zed much yet; is it possible today? Would something like Neon [1] help bridge the gap from VSCode and old Atom users?

    [1]: https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon

  • Electrons Are Fast, So Can Be Electron – How to Optimize Electron App Performance
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Jul 2023
    Neon
  • Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (27/2023)!
    9 projects | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023
    Is there a third option? Surely node has a way to directly call native code, similar to Python's C extensions? Some Node equivalent of PyO3? For example, I found neon which promises "safe and fast native Node.js modules".
  • Is converting typescript backend to Rust worth it?
    1 project | /r/rust | 3 Jul 2023
    Have a look at https://crates.io/crates/napi and https://crates.io/crates/neon which allow you to call rust from node. We went with napi but they're both pretty good.
  • Interaction between a Node.js module and a Rust program
    2 projects | /r/node | 31 Jan 2023
  • Underrated Node Knowledge
    1 project | /r/node | 14 Dec 2022
    Just to add: N-API is incredibly underrated. Then again, maybe the lack of a strong native modules ecosystem is an indicator that the pure JS ecosystem is just so good. But man, got something computationally intensive? Just offload it to Rust with Neon or something. Got some proprietary bit of code in your product? Build a native module.
  • Zig, the Small Language
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2022
    > rust is not well-suited for interfacing with FFI

    How so? Packages like neon [1] and rustler [2] suggest otherwise. I'm using both of those in a real product (I'm using neon directly, to write native modules for an Electron app; on the back-end, I depend on an Elixir package that uses rustler).

    [1]: https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon

    [2]: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

  • SurrealDB: A new scalable document-graph database written in Rust
    12 projects | /r/rust | 20 Aug 2022
    You can use https://github.com/infinyon/node-bindgen, https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon, or https://github.com/napi-rs/napi-rs for Node.js libraries, https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3 for Python libraries, https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/ for WebAssembly, and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen for C libraries!
  • Javascript senior developer here. Why I need to learn Rust?
    1 project | /r/rust | 6 Jul 2022
    They can use Rust to speed up Nodejs through https://crates.io/crates/neon for example
  • 1Password for SSH changed the way I work
    4 projects | dev.to | 9 May 2022
    I’m not prompted again while actively using my laptop. When it’s time to switch to an open source project, I’m seamlessly prompted for my GitHub key.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Racer and neon you can also consider the following projects:

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

rst - The open source design documentation tool for everybody [Moved to: https://github.com/vitiral/artifact]

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

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

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

surrealdb - A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web

vscode-rust

iswasmfast - Performance comparison of WebAssembly, C++ Addon, and native implementations of various algorithms in Node.js.

YouCompleteMe - A code-completion engine for Vim

rFmt

tarpaulin - A code coverage tool for Rust projects

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