Rust-analyzer Alternatives

rust-analyzer reviews and mentions

• LSP: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2024

  I've responded on reddit before (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1eqqwa7/comment/lhwwn...), but I'll restate and cover some other things here.

  > I have a maybe wrong and bad opinion that LSP is actually at the wrong level. Right now every language needs to implement a from scratch implementation of their LSP server. These implementations are HUGE and take YEARS to develop. rust-analyzer is over 365,000 lines of code. And every language has their own massive, independent implementation.

  rust-analyzer a big codebase, but it's also less problematic than the raw numbers would make you think. rust-analyzer has a bunch of advanced functionality (term search https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/pull/16092 and refactors), assists (nearly 20% of rust-analyzer!) and tests.

  > I think there should be a common Intellisense Database file format for providing LSP or LSP-like capabilities. Ok sure there will still be per-language work to be done to implement the IDB format.

  I think you might be describing formats like (https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/02/19/lsif) and SCIP (https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip). I personally like SCIP a bit more LSIF because SCIP's design makes it substantially easier to incrementally update a large index. We use SCIP with Glean (https://glean.software/) at work; it's pretty nice.

  > But you'd get like 95% of the implementation for free for any LLVM language. And generating a common IDB format should be a lot simpler than implementing a kajillion LSP protocols.

  I wouldn't say 95%. SCIP/LSIF can do the job for navigation, but that's only a subset of what you want from an IDE. For example:

• Higher RAII, and the Seven Arcane Uses of Linear Types
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2024
• Cranelift code generation comes to Rust
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2024

  go build 3.62s user 0.76s system 171% cpu 2.545 total

  I was looking forward to parallel front-end[4], but I have not seen any improvement for these small changes.

  [1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer

• A guide on Neovim's LSP client
  7 projects | dev.to | 13 Jan 2024

  For example, intelephense can show diagnostics in real time, there is no need to save the file to get new diagnostics. But rust-analyzer, the language server for rust, can only update diagnostics after saving the file.

• Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
  11 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023

  6. Rust Analyzer

• The rust-analyzer vscode extension is not working at all.
  1 project | /r/rust | 7 Dec 2023

  The rust-analyzer readme suggests you go here for support request. But even there, you'll need to provide more details to get useful help.

• LSP could have been better
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023

  For example: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/blob/master/docs/...

  > If you create an LSP, it will work best in VS Code.

  Any editor can work just as well as (or even better than) VS Code.

• Discussion Thread
  1 project | /r/neoliberal | 24 Sep 2023

  So, apparently the reason why rust-analyzer, the LSP server for Rust does not have persistent caching is because it would make "optimizing initial passes less important".

• The AI Content Flippening
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Sep 2023
• Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains
  1 project | /r/rust | 15 Sep 2023

  All I want to know is: Will it have a build configuration pulldown?

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