Clippy VS rust-analyzer

Compare Clippy vs rust-analyzer and see what are their differences.

Clippy

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

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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Clippy rust-analyzer
120 207
11,312 9,320
0.9% -
10.0 10.0
3 days ago over 2 years ago
Rust Rust
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Clippy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Clippy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.

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
  • 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.

What are some alternatives?

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

rustfmt - Format Rust code

vscode-rust - Rust extension for Visual Studio Code

vscode-rust

intellij-rust - Rust plugin for the IntelliJ Platform

rust.vim - Vim configuration for Rust.

Rust for Visual Studio Code

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

sublime-rust - The official Sublime Text 4 package for the Rust Programming Language

eglot - A client for Language Server Protocol servers

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