What are the best editors/IDEs for Rust?

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What are the best editors/IDEs for Rust?

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Best editors/IDEs for Rust	Price	Platforms	License
51 IntelliJ Rust	-	-	-
51 Visual Studio Code	FREE	Windows, macOS, Linux	MIT, Proprietary (official builds)
50 Neovim	-	Linux, Windows, macOS, *nix, Android	Apache
46 Emacs	Free	Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Cygwin	GPL-3.0-or-later
-- Geany	Free	Windows, macOS, Linux	GPL-2.0-only

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score 160 · Answer 1

IntelliJ Rust

Top Pro

A fully featured IDE

Top Con

Debugger requires paid CLion / IDEA Ultimate

Debugger still won't work without IDE that includes native debugger support. The only known is proprietary and paid CLion or IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate with the native debugger plugin. See More

InfluentialNodens's Experience

Debugging works in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate with the native debugging plugin installed, no need for CLion See More

Top Pro

Constantly being updated

Top Con

Intellij Rust being replaced by paid for IDE

ClassyJeoseungHalmang's Experience

Suddenly dropping support for the community edition without notice was a dirty trick. See More

Top Pro

Full power of IDEA engine

This plugin uses big part of Intellij IDEA features, including advanced code analysis and refactoring. See More

Top Con

Why would you pay for it if there is VSCode

DecisiveSet's Experience

The IDE is good and works fine. However Intellij have deprecated Rust in Intellij Idea and are bringing out a dedicated Rust IDE called Rustrover which unlike IDEA is not free. This puts it out of my reach. See More

Top Pro

Free/Libre (MIT)

Currently See More

Top Con

Too many issues (currently, in May 2022)

The plugin mostly works but it has a staggering number of issues (1400+ reported as of today). Therefore it should not be used if tool stability is an issue. See More

SkillfulAnat's Experience

Great if you are used with the IDEA engine. See More

Top Pro

Many users

Has more users than the average plugin. See More

Top Con

From the website: "work-in-progress, expect bugs and missing features"

PhilosophicalHatmehit's Experience

I've been using Visual Studio Code ever since I discovered it. However, Rust just works better with IntelliJ. The IDE itself is also easier to use and offers a lot of functionality. See More

Top Pro

The best VI shortcut plugin

For those that favor VI shortcuts, you can do nearly everything in IntelliJ that you would do in a VIM editor. Almost no conflicts out of the box, and those that are in conflict are easily resolved. See More

Top Con

Slow compared to Rust analyzer

ConsiderateLlefelys's Experience

Unfortunately IJ Rust is still missing key features and falls over with macros. Working with substrate is incredibly difficult with this. It's also very slow compared to rust_analyzer. I hope it gets better in the future but for now I'm back to using VSCode See More

Top Pro

Built-in user friendly terminal

Top Con

Difficult to work with substrate

PatientPilnitis's Experience

working with intellij for 5 years. Java, Kotlin, Rust See More

Top Pro

Has built-in Git support

Top Con

Does not parse macros correctly

It seems that autocomplete does not work for macros at all. See More

PerseveringMomus's Experience

overloaded interface and just a heavy IDE See More

Top Pro

Nearly 100% of Rust code is interpretted by the IDE

The ability to trace variable definitions and references from within closures as well as understand smart pointers and macro code makes it the smoothest interface for writing Rust. See More

DedicatedLevana's Experience

I like mostly JetBrains IDEs anyway :) See More

Top Pro

Supports JS/TS frameworks

DreamerAmeretat's Experience

In fact, gnome builder, vs-code and intellij community version, thrice are my favourite ides to develop my rust projects. See More

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score 183 · Answer 2

Visual Studio Code

Top Pro

Extendable through plugins

Visual Studio Code comes fairly complete out of the box, but there are many plugins available to extend its functionality. See More

Top Con

Memory hog

Allegedly, VS Code is "lightweight". Yet, running multiple instances of it at once, you may get many "out of memory" messages from Windows despite 16 GB RAM. (While of course also running other things. The point is the comparison with some other IDEs/editors where running them alongside the same number of other applications doesn't cause Windows to run out of memory) See More

DaringVanapagan's Experience

very good, easy to edit code in a split-windows mode See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

License:MIT, Proprietary (official builds)

Auto Complete:Yes

Bracket Matching:Yes

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Top Pro

Rust support

For cross platform Rust development it is the gold standard. See More

Top Con

You spend more time on configurations, installations, weird issues than on actual development

Notepad is better code editor than this. See More

PhilosophicalEunostus's Experience

Very good and simple ide See More

Top Pro

Integrated terminal

There's no need to press alt+tab to go to a terminal: it is directly integrated into the editor. See More

Top Con

Generalized

VS Code is a general code/scripting IDE built to be lightweight and for people familiar with their language of choice, not directly comparable to Visual Studio in power or scope. See More

Maxwell Anderson's Experience

Good plugin support for Rust specifically and just all around great text editor. It has less bugs than Atom and is also faster. See More

Top Pro

Updated frequently

There's a new release of Visual Studio Code every month. If you are one of the insiders then releases are daily. See More

Top Con

A "me too" offering from MS, far behind other well established editors that it attempts to clone

Other IDEs specific to a language often offer better tools for deep programming. See More

DrHell's Experience

After trying it for a while, I found it really bad, well behind language specific competitors. Interested in C++? Qt-Creator, Community Edition (Free) is way better: everything works out of the box, it is faster and consumes way less RAM. Do you want to work with Java? Go with NetBeans (free). VSC can be interesting for JavaScript, since most of the good competitors require a payment. But, staying in the free field, one can customize Geany (free, faster, uses a tiny amount of RAM) and be almost as good. Conclusion: look for a true IDE specifically built for your language of choice, or use another one, plugin based, but less RAM/CPU-hungry See More

Top Pro

Embedded Git control

Visual Studio Code has integrated Git control, guaranteeing speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. See More

Top Con

It is not user friendly

VigorousMorpheus's Experience

Best IDE. Those who say it's just a "Text editor" are gravely misguided. It provides a better experience than any of the JetBrains IDEs I've tried! See More

Top Pro

Huge community behind it

The ease of getting assistance and finding tutorials is increasing as the community grows. See More

Top Con

It is very slow and hardly support remote work

Top Pro

Closed Source

Don'y you love it when companies release proprietary software? See More

Top Con

It is hard to adjust

Top Pro

Fast and powerful

VS-Code has the speed of Sublime and the power of WebStorm. Perhaps this is the best software that Microsoft has ever created. See More

Top Con

Poor error fix suggestions

Error detection and suggestions/fixes are poor compared to IntelliJ platforms See More

Top Pro

Python support

Excellent Python plugin, originally created by Don Jayamanne, now hired by Microsoft to extend and maintain the extension. See More

Top Con

Technically proprietary build

Even if the source code is released under MIT (Code - OSS/VSCodium), this build that Microsoft makes (VSCode) is under a EULA. See More

Top Pro

High fidelity C# plugin

The Omnisharp plugin is very powerful providing full sln, csproj, and project.json support. See More

Top Con

Weird License

Microsoft says VSCode is under the MIT license, but they add a layer of telemetry to all packaged versions. See More

Top Pro

TypeScript integration

There is very solid TypeScript integration in Visual Studio Code. Both are developed by Microsoft and VSC itself is written in TypeScript. See More

Top Con

It is not user friendly

Top Pro

Active development

It's really nice to see how the code editor evolves. Every month there is a new version with great communication of new features and changes. See More

Top Con

Slow launch time

Than it's competitors, e.g. Sublime Text. See More

Top Pro

Integrated task runners

Task runners display lists of available tasks and performing these tasks is as simple as a click of the mouse. See More

Top Con

It doesn't look like IDE more like text editor with plugins

Top Pro

Ready to use out of the box

You don't need to configure and add plugins before being productive. However, you can add plugins if needed but for the basics you're well covered. See More

Top Con

File search is extremely slow

It's absolutely not possible to use this tool with big projects given how long it takes to search for files. See More

Top Pro

Inline definition picking and usages finding

These features allow you to have a glance at code without opening it as a whole in a separate tab. Moreover, editing is allowed. See More

Top Con

It is written on JS and it cosumes a lot of memory for such small app

Top Pro

Good support for new Emmet syntax

Top Con

No support for tiled/grid editor layouts

It can be configured for rows of editors, or columns of editors, but not both simultaneously. The development team has explicitly said this is not a priority. See More

Top Pro

Support RTL languages

It supports pretty web rtl languages like arabic languages when most of other editors don't support it. See More

Top Con

Embedded Git isn't powerful enough

You can do nothing but to track changes, stage them and commit. No history, visualization, rebasing or cherry-picking – these things are left to git console or external git client. See More

Top Pro

JS typechecking

It leverages TypeScript compiler functionality to statically type check JS (type inference, JSDoc types) with "javascript.implicitProjectConfig.checkJs": true option. See More

Top Con

The autocomplete and code check is not as powerful as the one on WebStorm

Sometimes it doesn't tell you if you made a typo in a method name or if a method is not used and several other important features. See More

Top Pro

Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Extensions are written in either Typescript or JavaScript. See More

Top Con

Very bad auto import

Top Pro

It has gotten really good

All it takes is one stop for all the features many people need. See More

Top Con

Emmet plugin often fails on even simple p tags

Top Pro

ESLint integration

ESLint integrates great. You can define your rules trough .eslintrc.* as usual and vs code will autofix your code on save. So your code is always in style. See More

Top Con

Project search limits results

Because file search is so slow your results are limited in order to simulate a faster search. See More

Top Pro

Custom snippets support

Snippets are templates that will insert text for you and adapt it to their context, and in VSC they are highly customizable. See More

Top Con

Have no good default js style analyzer

In WebStorm there is analyzer that checks for warnings and highlight this in yellow, here you cannot find or add it even with plugins. It is possible to have it as errors with linter but while you are actively changing file that's not very nice. See More

Top Pro

Libre/open source

Released under the MIT License. See More

Top Con

VSCode is spyware

Top Pro

Great performance

For a 'wrapped' web-based application, Visual Studio Code performs very well. See More

Top Pro

Integrated debugging

VSC includes debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript. See More

Top Pro

JavaScript IntelliSense support

JavaScript IntelliSense allows Visual Studio Code to provide you with useful hints and auto-completion features while you code. See More

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score 44 · Answer 3

Neovim

Top Pro

Powerful plugin model

Vim plugins have always been useful, but tied to specific languages. Neovim's architecture provides better separation between plugins and the core product, so that plugins are completely flexible and can be written in any language. See More

Top Con

Consumes brain energy for editing that should be used for logic

Text editing in vim can be great once you've learned it, but it requires thinking about combination of commands. In other editors, you don't have to think about how to delete this part of code. You just think about how to implement a feature, what is a good design for this code. Even after you get used to using vim, it still requires your brain for editing. See More

HumorousSwayxtix's Experience

It's the better editor for any languaje, with rust and LSP run perfectly See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux, Windows, macOS, *nix, Android

License:Apache

Bracket Matching:Yes

Extension language:Any

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Top Pro

Highly customizable

Absolutely everything can be customized See More

Top Con

Requires brain mode switching

When editing in vim, you have you use the vim keys; when editing in every other window on your PC, or in Word or Excel or other application, you need to use the standard system key combinations. Learning the vim combinations can actually make you SLOWER at everything else. See More

Top Pro

Active development community

Top Con

Limited cross platform support

Neovim is not available for many legacy platforms. The Windows version is currently considered experimental. See More

Top Pro

Fast and light on memory usage

New neovim editor instance starts instantly and you can have multiple editors open at the same time, because id does not require a lot of memory to run. See More

Top Con

No graphical editor yet

At the time of writing this, no equivalents to gVim exist. See More

Top Pro

Modern code base

As a refactor over Vim, Neovim has greatly improved its code base. For example, some functionality is handled by libuv, the same code base that powers Node.js. See More

Top Con

No stable release yet

As of yet, Neovim is in an unstable point in it's development. There is no stable release and using it for the moment should be done with caution as many features may change in the future. See More

Top Pro

Work in TUI (Tex User Interface)

Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh. See More

Top Pro

Treesitter and LSP

Top Pro

To infinity and beyond

Much like the editor that spawned it, nvim is packed to the brim with features you may not know about, even after months/years of daily using it. After close to a decade of daily-driving (n)vim, I'm still surprised on occasion why I've been relying on a silly plugin to do something that was a built-in feature all along. See More

Top Pro

Even more powerful since 2019, because of additions such as vim-coc, TabNine, fzf, skim

Vim gets stronger every time command-line tools get stronger. This isn't even it's the final form. See More

Top Pro

Built-in terminal emulator

This avoids the user having to make any installations. See More

Top Pro

Better integration with external tools

The core text editor is "headless", meaning it's detached from the user-interface so other programs can hook into it. This enables better integration with IDEs and browsers, where "Vim mode" has typically been a poor substitute because it was a partial rewrite or a partial port at best. One of the advantages of Vim has always been ubiquity and Neovim makes it even more ubiquitous. See More

Top Pro

Async plugin execution

Top Pro

Config file is where it should be

I don't like having dotfiles or dotdirs in my homefolder unless they're needed. Configs should be in the .config dir in their respective folder. See More

Top Pro

Built-in file-explorer and ability to make splits and edit multiple things simutaneously.

This makes editing multiple files at once, moving code around so easy. See More

Top Pro

Work in TUI (Text User Interface)

Neovim can work on terminal, on a remote server over ssh. See More

Top Pro

Easier to pick-up than ever

Don't believe it? Try typing vimtutor in your command line right now. See More

Top Pro

Opens a 3Gig Text File in a few seconds

Not many editors can open such a large text file so quickly. See More

Top Pro

Comes with some good configurations out of the box

Some typical configurations most of VIM users make are default in Neovim. See More

Top Pro

UI Agnostic

The core functionality is handled apart from the UI, meaning that Neovim can be embedded into any other GUI system, such as Atom. See More

Top Pro

Still Vim but with upgraded features and some issues fixed

NeoVim was a complete rewrite of Vim, with new features added and underlying issues resolved thanks to the Vim code base. The keybindings and configuration are the same as Vim, so the switch can be pretty simple. See More

Top Pro

Plugin to interact with racer

This enables navigating rust projects and is used to supply the rust language server with code/path completion. The language server can then be used by intellisense engines such as coc.nvim to do incremental, insert-mode pattern completion. See More

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score 56 · Answer 4

Emacs

Top Pro

Free

Licensed under GNU GPL. See More

Top Con

Learning curve is long

While it's better than it used to be, with most functions being possible through the menu, Emacs is still quite a bit different from your standard editor. You'll need to learn new keyboard shortcuts. See More

IntellectualErsa's Experience

best of the best See More

Specs

Platforms:Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Cygwin

License:GPL-3.0-or-later

Auto Complete:Yes

Bracket Matching:Yes

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Top Pro

Keyboard-focused, mouse-free editing

Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard. See More

Top Con

Chorded keyboard combinations can be baffling

For example, for navigation it uses the b, n, p, l keys. Which for some people may seem strange. But don't worry, you can change it. See More

UnderstandingMunsin's Experience

Being able to work remotely on servers in our cloud-focused world is a huge plus. Checkout Spacemacs for an out of the box ready to roll experience. See More

Top Pro

Total customizability

Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza). See More

Top Con

Not yet well-multithreaded

Modern LSP (external language servers for syntax checking and completion) are heavy and require good multithreading from IDE. Emacs was developed without much of it. Though new version with fixes is about to release. See More

Top Pro

Enormous range of functionalities (way beyond simple "text editing")

Through its programmability, a very broad range of functionalities can be integrated in emacs, turning it even into a "single point of contact" with the underlying operating system. See More

Top Con

Takes a lot of effort to configure to fit your needs

It definitely can be configured (and even programmed) according to anyone's habits, needs and preferences. For example, imagine a text editor which can handle typesetting and displaying English, Russian, Japanese and Sanskrit text, supporting LaTeX publishing workflow, Common Lisp development workflow, Javascript development workflow, writing down thoughts and to-do tasks and also having a full-featured command line. But you will have to configure/program it, and it'll in no way be either fast or pleasurable. See More

Top Pro

It's also an IDE

You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed. See More

Top Pro

Provides org-mode

Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list. See More

Top Pro

Great documentation

With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties. See More

Top Pro

Works in terminal or as a GUI application

You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface. See More

Top Pro

best

the best See More

Top Pro

Integrates planning in your development process

You can jump straight from your org-mode files to programming tasks - and back - and build a seamless workflow. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others. See More

Top Pro

Vi keybindings through Evil mode

Evil mode emulates vim behaviors within Emacs. It enables Vi users to move inside the Emacs universe. See More

Top Pro

Excellent Lisp editing support

Built-in packages make editing Lisp source code feel natural. See More

Top Pro

Completely customizable

Customize every corer of it using the config file. See More

Top Pro

Racer Integration

https://github.com/phildawes/racer See More

Top Pro

Self documenting

Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t. See More

Top Pro

dabbrev-expand (Alt-/)

Dynamic word completion. See More

Top Pro

Helm plugin adds even more power to Emacs

Powerful commands, search, and more with the Helm plugin. See More

Top Pro

Excelent tutorial to get you started

The tutorial you are presented with at startup shows you exactly what you need to get started and teaches you how to use the built-in help yourself later. See More

Top Pro

Customisation with Emacs Lisp

(Almost) everything is implemented in Emacs Lisp. You are the limit when it comes to changing or adding new functions to emacs. See More

Top Pro

Interactive shells

Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell. See More

Top Pro

Rectangular cut and paste

Emacs can select rectangularly. See More

Top Pro

Visual selection and text objects with Evil

Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects. See More

Top Pro

Versatile

Emacs is great for everything. See More

Top Pro

Interactive shells

Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell. See More

Top Pro

Has been widely used for a long time

Top Pro

Eshell is cross-platform

Top Pro

Gnus

Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles means that I never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use. See More

Top Pro

GTK+ widgets support

Since version 25 you can run GTK widgets inside Emacs buffers. One of these is the WebKitGTK+, which allows the user to run a full-featured web browser inside Emacs with JavaScript and CSS support among other things. See More

Top Pro

Lisp customizations

With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs. See More

Top Pro

(Almost) everything is implemented in Emacs Lisp

You are the limit. See More

Top Pro

Support multi-line editing, multiple frame, powerful paren, crazy jumping style

Review the "Emacs Rocks" video. See More

Top Pro

Ubiquity

Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files. See More

Top Pro

Mini buffer

You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer. See More

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score 29 · Answer 5

Geany

Top Pro

Cross platform

Geany is a cross platform editor, very similar to Notepad++ in Windows. See More

Top Con

Lacks Refactoring

TrustworthyAmaArhus's Experience

Clean to run See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux

Top Pro

Light and fast

Geany is very lightweight thanks to the smaller offering of features. See More

Top Con

Lacks a debugger

CharmingEingana's Experience

Moved to Geany from slow and unwieldy Atom See More

Top Pro

Native

It is a real app and not another frankenstein web/electron app. This means it runs great and doesn't extraordinary amounts of RAM. See More

Top Con

Not very advanced

Similar to Notepad or Gedit. See More

Top Pro

Quick search on large files

In Geany you technically search once for a whole search query, unlike Gedit, where once you start typing, the file is searched for in accordance with each substring of what you're typing, all the while leading to terribly annoying lag. See More

Top Con

Not many third-party plugins

Geany is not as popular as some other text editors with plugin support. As such it's understandable that it's missing lots of powerful plugins available in other editors. See More

Top Pro

Real syntax parsing (not just coloring)

Hence it is capable of showing the methods and inner classes of, e.g., a Java source file. See More

Top Pro

Simple project management

Top Pro

Built-in terminal

Press F5 and code will run without the need to switch between windows. See More

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score 29 · Answer 6

micro

Top Pro

Works on all large platforms

Micro runs on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. See More

Top Con

Runs in Terminal

Luke I. Wilson's Experience

I used Micro as my primary text editor for about a month. Was fairly good, but I'd find myself going to more powerful text editors like VSCode when I needed to work with multiple files, because Micro just feels clumsy with more than one file open. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD

Top Pro

Easy to install and use

Micro has no dependencies and doesn't require any external files to run. See More

Top Con

No autocompletion

Top Pro

Comes out of the box with about a hundred different languages supported for highlighting.

Many different languages will be highlighted out of the box, but none will be auto-completed. See More

Top Pro

Runs in terminal

Top Pro

Very lightweight and fast.

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score 20 · Answer 7

CLion

Top Con

Proprietary

Clion is proprietary software which costs $199/1st year for a business license or $89/1st year for an individual license. See More

Top Pro

Works out of box

No need to spend hours (days) on finding plugins. See More

SuccessfulAres's Experience

Yes a licens cost some money, but so do my time See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

License:Proprietary

Auto Complete:Yes

Top Pro

Cross platform

Clion works on Windows, Linux and OSX. See More

Top Pro

Intelligent code completion

CLion has an intelligent autocompletion engine that tries to predict the symbol you are typing based on your previous history and the context in which it's being typed. See More

Top Pro

Free for students

All of the JetBrains developer tools are free for students. This includes CLion and IntelliJ Ultimate. See More

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score 36 · Answer 8

IntelliJ IDEA + intellij-rust

RationalLiberalitas's Experience

The best after clion See More

score 10 · Answer 9

Kate

Top Pro

Project mode

Kate allows you to make projects to simplify the organisation of your code. This brings in additional organization of an IDE without the overhead. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD

License:LGPL-2.0-or-later, MIT

Collaborative editing:No

RTL:Yes

Top Pro

Integrated terminal

Has a terminal that can sync to the location of your document, letting you compile or run your program quickly or run quick commands, all without leaving the editor. See More

Top Pro

Syntax highlighting

Kate supports syntax highlighting for over 180 languages, from Assembler to Zsh. See More

Top Pro

Vi entry mode

Kate has a vi entry mode. See More

Top Pro

By far one of the best and lightest text editors

Notepads alternative (for the Windows users). See More

Top Pro

Fast and minimaistic

Kate is pretty fast and lightweight. This helps it with it's start up speed. See More

Top Pro

Edit over FTP, SSH, or other protocols

Kate uses KDE's input and output libraries to read and write files, allowing seamless integration with FTP, SMB, SFTP, and many other protocols. See More

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score 20 · Answer 10

Gnome Builder

Top Pro

Support rust by default

Top Con

No project management

Because it is still in early development there are little project management functionalities. See More

Top Pro

Integrated debugging

Top Con

Not available for Windows yet

Top Pro

Autocomplete

Fast autocomplete. See More

Top Pro

Great language support (for linux based projects)

Python, C, Java, Javascript, Go, Vala, C++, and many more. See More

Top Pro

Integrates nicely into the GNOME Desktop Environment

Client-side decorations, good use of widgets. See More

Top Pro

Templating

Good templates available to build applications, even to build gnome applications. See More

Top Pro

Tiling Editor capability

Supports Tiling. See More

Top Pro

Supports versioning (git)

Shows diff indication and has branch integration too. See More

Top Pro

Terminal built in

Fully featured terminal is packaged. See More

Top Pro

Extendable through plugins

Top Pro

Integrated system-wide profiler for improving software performance

Top Pro

Lovely find and replace tool with great REGEX support

Shows a live feedback of what matches the pattern/criteria entered. See More

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score 14 · Answer 11

Spacemacs

Top Con

Emacs is slow

Emacs is single threaded which means that if you enable all the great features you might be used to from Vim, it will run noticeably slower which can be quite frustrating at times. There are efforts at a concurrent Emacs, but they don't seem to be going anywhere. See More

Top Pro

VIM Keybindings with EMACS ecosystem

EMACS ecosystem and language support is best in show. The EMACS is a great IDE that was in search of a good text editor. Spacemacs makes EMACS have a good text editor. See More

TruthfulAequitas's Experience

Provide basic IDE-like experience for Rust. It's possible to setup nice system with documentation lookup, autocomplete, debugger and all other stuff provided by Emacs. See More

Specs

Platforms:GNU/Linux, MacOS, Windows

Top Pro

Preconfigured emacs distro

Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive. See More

WonderfulEuterpe's Experience

Autocomplete is extremely slow as of right now, causing the whole editor to freeze for seconds or until it is killed. See More

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score 28 · Answer 12

VIM/Rust.vim

Top Pro

Relatively low resource usage compared to ether IDEs

Top Con

Steep learning curve

NobleTenenet's Experience

It takes a while to get used to vi, but the learning pays off in the end. See More

Top Pro

Once you installed the plugins, and got used to the UI, it is the fastest editor there is

Top Con

Vim needs many plugins to even compete with others

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score 9 · Answer 13

Helix Editor

Top Pro

Minimal hassle setting up

Very little configuration needed to get up and running with Helix. See More

SpontaneousOgmios's Experience

It is super fast compare to neovim; Plug and Play; feature rich - close to neovim. See More

Top Pro

Best bindings

Helix is Kakoune inspired and it has the best key-bindings in a modal editor. See More

TruthfulIsimud's Experience

really fast and I love the concept of first mark, then do ... . See More

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score 38 · Answer 14

Eclipse/Corrosion

Top Pro

Cargo integration

FascinatingGoorialla's Experience

It has debug integration, but not when running unit tests it would be nice if it had this feature also See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

HilariousKagutsuchi's Experience

Usual Eclipse experience. See More

Top Pro

Fast

Top Pro

Easy to learn, especially if you use eclipse already

Top Pro

Integrated debugging

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score 21 · Answer 15

What are the best editors/IDEs for Rust?

14 Options Considered

IntelliJ Rust

My Recommendation for IntelliJ Rust

My Recommendation for IntelliJ Rust

A fully featured IDE

Debugger requires paid CLion / IDEA Ultimate

Constantly being updated

Intellij Rust being replaced by paid for IDE

Full power of IDEA engine

Why would you pay for it if there is VSCode

Free/Libre (MIT)

Too many issues (currently, in May 2022)

Many users

From the website: "work-in-progress, expect bugs and missing features"

The best VI shortcut plugin

Slow compared to Rust analyzer

Built-in user friendly terminal

Difficult to work with substrate

Has built-in Git support

Does not parse macros correctly

Nearly 100% of Rust code is interpretted by the IDE

Supports JS/TS frameworks

Visual Studio Code

My Recommendation for Visual Studio Code

My Recommendation for Visual Studio Code

Extendable through plugins

Memory hog

Rust support

You spend more time on configurations, installations, weird issues than on actual development

Integrated terminal

Generalized

Updated frequently

A "me too" offering from MS, far behind other well established editors that it attempts to clone

Embedded Git control

It is not user friendly

Huge community behind it

It is very slow and hardly support remote work

Closed Source

It is hard to adjust

Fast and powerful

Poor error fix suggestions

Python support

Technically proprietary build

High fidelity C# plugin

Weird License

TypeScript integration

It is not user friendly

Active development

Slow launch time

Integrated task runners

It doesn't look like IDE more like text editor with plugins

Ready to use out of the box

File search is extremely slow

Inline definition picking and usages finding

It is written on JS and it cosumes a lot of memory for such small app

Good support for new Emmet syntax

No support for tiled/grid editor layouts

Support RTL languages

Embedded Git isn't powerful enough

JS typechecking

The autocomplete and code check is not as powerful as the one on WebStorm

Extensions (aka plugins) are written in JavaScript

Very bad auto import

It has gotten really good

Emmet plugin often fails on even simple p tags

ESLint integration

Project search limits results

Custom snippets support

Have no good default js style analyzer

Libre/open source

VSCode is spyware

Great performance

Integrated debugging

JavaScript IntelliSense support

Neovim

My Recommendation for Neovim

My Recommendation for Neovim

Powerful plugin model

Consumes brain energy for editing that should be used for logic