rust-analyzer VS Cargo

Compare rust-analyzer vs Cargo 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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rust-analyzer Cargo
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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.

Cargo

Posts with mentions or reviews of Cargo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-27.
  • Surprisingly Powerful – Serverless WASM with Rust Article 1
    5 projects | dev.to | 27 Apr 2024
    Installing Trunk happens through Cargo. Remember, Cargo is more than a package manager, it also supports sub-commands.
  • Understanding Dependencies in Programming
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    Dependency Management in Other Languages: We've discussed Python and Node.js in this article, but dependency management is a universal concept in programming. Exploring how you handle dependencies in other languages like Java, C#, or Rust could be beneficial. (I think Rust's cargo is an excellent example of a package manager.)
  • Cargo Script
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
  • Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Feb 2024
    Nice hack! Would it have been possible back then to use cargo to pull in some dependencies?

    The clean solution of cargo script is here: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/12207

  • Making Rust binaries smaller by default
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2024
    Yes, I am sure this is going to be a part of Rust 1.77.0 and it will release on 21st March. I say that because of the tag in the PR (https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/13257#event-11505613...).

    I'm no expert on Rust compiler development, but my understanding is that all code that is merged into master is available on nightly. If they're not behind a feature flag (this one isn't), they'll be available in a full release within 12 weeks of being merged. Larger features that need a lot more testing remain behind feature flags. Once they are merged into master, they remain on nightly until they're sufficiently tested. The multi-threaded frontend (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/11/09/parallel-rustc.html) is an example of such a feature. It'll remain nightly only for several months.

    Again, I'm not an expert. This is based on what I've observed of Rust development.

  • You can't do that because I hate you
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Dec 2023
    The author provides very surface-level criticism of two Rust tools, but they don't look into why those choices were made.

    With about five minutes of my time, I found out:

    wrap_comments was introduced in 2019 [0]. There are bugs in the implementation (it breaks Markdown tables), so the option hasn't been marked as stable. Progress on the issue has been spotty.

    --no-merge-sources is not trivial to re-implement [1]. The author has already explained why the flag no longer works -- Cargo integrated the command, but not all of the flags. This commit [2] explains why this functionality was removed in the first place.

    Rust is open source, so the author of this blog post could improve the state of the software they care about by championing these issues. The --no-merge-sources error message even encourages you to open an issue, presumably so that the authors of Cargo can gauge the importance of certain flags/features.

    You could even do something much simpler, like adding a comment to the related issues mentioning that you ran into these rough edges and that it made your life a little worse, or with a workaround that you found.

    Alternatively, you can continue to write about how much free software sucks.

    [0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/3347

    [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/10344

    [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/commit/3842d8e6f20067f716...

  • Cargo has never frustrated me like npm or pip has. Does Cargo ever get frustrating? Does anyone ever find themselves in dependency hell?
    13 projects | /r/rust | 6 Dec 2023
    You try to use it as a part of multi-language project, with an external build tool to tie it all together, and you discover that --out-dir flag is still not stabilized over some future compatibility concerns.
  • State of Mozilla
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023
  • Learning Rust by Building a CLI App
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Aug 2023
    To create a new application we'll use cargo (a build tool and also a package manager for Rust. It is used for scaffolding new library/binary projects). So in your projects folder, you can run this command in your terminal:
  • Leaving Haskell Behind
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023
    > ...but at the end of the day Cargo is the reason that Rust is popular.

    FWIW, maybe that's true for you, but there are numerous other advantages to the language for which many people choose to use Rust--some even "despite" Cargo: you see Google having had to put in way way WAY too much work to get Bazel working for Rust :/--that it honestly feels a bit like belittling an extremely important language to make this claim so flippantly.

    > You can set a default build target for a Cargo project with two lines of configuration, no nightly features necessary...

    This doesn't work as, as soon as you start setting target-specific options, it infects the host build, as they incorrectly modelled the problem as some kind of map from targets to flags. If you don't believe me, on your Linux computer, try cross-compile something complicated that will runs on a "least common denominator" Linux distribution, such as CentOS 7.

    > Can you clarify what this is referring to?

    Sure. I've Googled rust cargo target host bugs for you (which, FWIW, finds a number of bugs I've filed or have talked about, but it isn't as if I have a list anywhere). Note that one of these bugs is "closed", but I still provide them for context as a patch might have been merged but (as you'll find out if you read through all of these) it isn't stable.

    https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8147

    https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3349

    https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9322

    https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/9453

    https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9753

    The result of this work being left incomplete is that increasingly large numbers of "serious" projects--things I'd expect people in packaging land to have heard of, such as BuildRoot--are being forced to set the ridiculous environment variable __CARGO_TEST_CHANNEL_OVERRIDE_DO_NOT_USE_THIS="nightly" in order to get access to a flag that makes Cargo sort of work.

    (And yet, I often see people surprised at how long it is taking for various of the more important clients to fully get into using Rust, as the safety issues are so severe from continuing to use C/C++: as you made the contention that you believe the reason why people use Rust is Cargo, I will say the opposite: the reason why we don't see more Rust is also Cargo.)

What are some alternatives?

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

vscode-rust - Rust extension for Visual Studio Code

RustCMake - An example project showing usage of CMake with Rust

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

RustScan - 🤖 The Modern Port Scanner 🤖

rustfmt - Format Rust code

opencv-rust - Rust bindings for OpenCV 3 & 4

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

overflower - A Rust compiler plugin and support library to annotate overflow behavior

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

crates.io - The Rust package registry