Rust Rover is out of preview and is free for non-commercial use. The only caveat is:
It’s also important to note that if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics.
From what I gather, this isn’t opensource, which is a pity. JetBrains makes the best IDEs out there for me. Anytime I touch something else, I feel hampered. Everything else just seems to take too much setup no matter how much time I put into it (looking at you neovim).
Developing Rust in CLion has been a charm so far, but let’s wait until v2 of RustRover before switching over…
@onlinepersona @deluxeparrot Last time I checked, jetbrains editors didn’t support nix well. Has that changed?
To my knowledge there’s still only nix-idea, but tbh I haven’t found any good IDE or editor for nix. Syntax highlighting is easy, but advanced features like code suggestion, “GOTO definition”, and so on have never worked for me 🤷 Does good nix support exist anywhere?
@onlinepersona https://github.com/oxalica/nil might worth a try. It’s implementing the language server protocol so it can be used with any editor/IDE that has support. I am sure intellij has a plugin for that.
@onlinepersona #nix works very nice as a systems package manager. I use it to pull in C libs or build my own, without polluting my base system. And it’s much more lightweight than VM or even docker, especially flakes that I discovered recently.
I know exactly how you feel. I did eventually end up finding an open source solution that worked for me though. After trying a few things I ended up on the helix text editor + the Rust LSP.
It took me a while to get to the point where I could code as fast as I could in Jetbrains IDEs but I got there and am now even faster than I used to be.
It was hard but very worth it.
I’ve read about Helix and it seems less effort than vim or its evil twin (emacs). How long did it take for you to get productive?
In what way is it less effort than vim? I’ve tried helix a little bit and it didn’t seem that different.
To get to the point where I could feel like not an idiot maybe 3 hours of actual programming time.
To get to the point where I was a slow yet productive programmer it took maybe 12 hours of actual programming time.
To get faster than I was at Jetbrains IDEs that took like maybe ~24 hours of actual programming time.
I strongly recommend:
- remapping caps lock to escape.
- disabling the arrow keys in all modes.
After I did these two things, I got better faster. It’s frustrating but totally worth it. Now when I’m on my laptop I just use helix and qutebrowser under the sway desktop environment. It’s a 100% mouse free experience and it’s just faster and better in every way.
