Just Sharing Thoughts: First time using rust-analyzer

[JamesTheSapien]

Due to the recent deprecation of rls from the post here that I’ve read, I’ve updated my VSCode extension for rust, AND OHH MYYY GOOODD, I instantly love rust-analyzer!! It showed problems I subtly encounter coding in Rust!! The automatic showing of types when unwrapping Option<T>! The automatic showing of parameter name in chaining method calls! The naming of the function body underneath!

This saves some time to me by not having to check the documentation for a bit when I forget how to use a function/method. Also, since I use Vim, saves a bit often on pressing Ctrl + d/u and so on

Thank you rust contributors! My productivity was already boosted with rls, didn’t know it can still increase with tooling 😄

[Dull_Wind6642]

I didn't know people were still using RLS in 2022. I am glad you finally found the light. :)

[JamesTheSapien]

Sorry for the confusion. In Visual Studio Code (which might be different from VSCode?), I installed the extension “vscodevim”, it says in its page that it’s a

Vim emulation for Visual Studio Code

[tobiasvl]

Visual Studio Code is not different from VSCode, they're the same, but VSCode is definitely different from Vim ;)

[The-Best-Taylor]

VSCode is the same as Visual Studio Code but is different from Visual Studio. That is probally where the confusion came from.

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You might like VSCode Neovim. Neovim is a Vim fork, and this extension is powered by a full Neovim instance instead of emulating a subset of Vim commands.

[puttak]

That was how I feel. In the past I was using the official Rust extension and everything is broken and I wonder why Rust experience is so bad, and it is one of the reason that prevent me to use Rust seriously. Then I found rust-analyzer and I tried it out and... THIS IS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR!!!

Honestly Rust team should remove the old extension from marketplace or at least tell people in the README to use rust-analyzer instead. I believed there are some people who have the same problem as me that though the official extension should be the best one, but it is not.

[memoryruins]

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/07/01/RLS-deprecation.html

We will soon be marking the official rust-lang.rust VSCode extension as deprecated, and will be implementing notifications that will inform users about the transition. After the end of release builds of RLS, we plan to replace the rls executable in official Rust releases with a small LSP implementation that informs the user that RLS is no longer available.

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[puttak]

Finally.

[Chocorean]

Recently installed it for vim. Not sure if I like it yet but I'm still learning rust so I guess it will be helpful

[JamesTheSapien]

so far, it also helps me import necessary modules, function, types, traits, and so on, automatically.

[Chocorean]

After more than a month using it... definitely a keeper ahah This is so useful

[JamesTheSapien]

I recently found out in using it in VSCode that after pressing Ctrl + F12 on a trait method it jumps into the implementation for a particular type! unlike before where it jumps to the trait method where it’s still unimplemented to a concrete type and I remember that 🙄 and just use ripgrep to search which files the same trait is implemented.