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Rust-Analyzer is much better than whatever IDEA/Clion uses IME.

• lights0123 6y ago
  Is there anything other than performance and proc macro compatibility that RA has over IntelliJ-Rust? All of the alternatives to IntelliJ-Rust are just missing critical (to me) features like refactoring.
  • the_duke 6y ago
    RA uses chalk [1], which is a trait solver rewrite for rustc. You can already use it on nightly with a feature flag. So RA can get close to the trait resolution of the compiler, which is probably the most challenging part. I haven't used Intellij in a while, but I doubt they can ever get close with their custom implementation. I always had trouble with trait resolution/autocompletion, which is often where you need from the IDE the most. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/chalk https://github.com/rust-lang/chalk
  • brundolf 6y ago
    When was the last time you tried RA? I ask because they've been adding features at a rapid clip, and lately they seem to be focusing on adding new refactoring features. I wouldn't be surprised to hear they still don't have everything CLion does, but I also wouldn't be surprised to see them get there before long.
• atsuzaki 6y ago
  You have to consider that both plugins were pioneered by the same lead developer, and rust-analyzer came as a second system leveraging things learned from the IntelliJ Rust project.