IntelliJ Rust

Is there something new here, or is this just a link to the existing Rust plugin, such as I&#x27;ve already been using from CLion for a couple years?<p>(When I first saw the link I was wondering if JetBrains had decided to release a Rust-centric IDE, and was briefly excited (tho I have a CLion license) but seems that&#x27;s not the case.)<p>FWIW latest changelog on the plugin @ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intellij-rust.github.io&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;changelog-198.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intellij-rust.github.io&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;10&#x2F;changelog-198.htm...</a>

The plugin is better than nothing but not really up to par with Jetbrains standards yet.<p>- More than half of compile time errors are not shown in the IDEs. - Breaks when using some macros. For example wheb using gtk-rs each file defining a custom widget constantly show 2 errors that aren&#x27;t there. Autocompletion fails for a lot of macros, even simple ones with macro_rules!. - The debugger works but there are no type renderers. I wish it showed the result of Display or Debug. Often you have to go through 5-6 layers of objects to find the actual data with std types. Single stepping can be very slow at times. Runtime expression evaluation almost always fails except for very simple expression like accessing a field (forget about anything that creates structs). - Finding files with double Shift is usually very fast but for some reason it can take 6-7 seconds for Rust files to show up.

Last time I tried this, the plugin was incapable of actually showing compile errors in the project view and they said their false positive error rate was too high to enable it (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;intellij-rust&#x2F;intellij-rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;8373">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;intellij-rust&#x2F;intellij-rust&#x2F;pull&#x2F;8373</a>). That was a dealbreaker for me compared to VSCode. It doesn&#x27;t look like that&#x27;s changed?

(2020)<p>From the page source: &quot;datePublished&quot;: &quot;2020-08-28T09:00&quot;,

When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn&#x27;t work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?

Surely you mean &quot;IntelliJ rs&quot;, right?<p>Kidding aside, this is nice! Always happy to see more support for Rust, and I&#x27;m usually pretty impressed by what JetBrains brings to the table in their IDEs, so this is promising! Hopefully this will be one of those cases where the less you need an IDE, the more comfortable the features are for the ones that are built.

I got excited that this is a new, official IDE for Rust from Jetbrains but it&#x27;s just a repost of the usual plugin. I LOVE their IDEs for Java, Go, Python, JS, and even objective c though that one recently died. The rust plugin still for the most part does not autocomplete well and often misses compilation errors.<p>I&#x27;ve generally seen the release of a branded IDE for a language from Jetbrains to be when they have great support for it, hopefully it&#x27;ll come for Rust but it&#x27;s taking a long time, which unfortunately for a Jetbrains user to death at this point, means not using Rust itself.

Should Jetbrains make a specific Rust IDE? Would be cool!

I use this regularly. It&#x27;s _pretty_ good. But autocomplete and Copilot tend to fight a fair bit.

When I was a newbie for Rust, I was encouraged to use CLion with the Rust plugin. What&#x27;s the difference between CLion + Rust and IDEA + Rust?

Serious question: why would I use this over VS Code + the Rust Analyzer extension?

Maybe fix search breaking every other month first.