RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE

Err, what? There isn't even an argument here, "GoLand only supports Go so surely it must be better at it!".

> The only reason some people use VSCode instead of GoLand for Go coding is because its free. There's no real reason to use it otherwise.

The feature set listed on the site looks identical to that offered today by Rust-Analyzer or the existing IntelliJ-Rust plugin. Except in practice, IntelliJ-Rust is significantly weaker at understanding Rust code than Rust-Analyzer, and the strides that they have made in the last few years have largely come down to piggybacking off of it.

And that's ignoring that I find IntelliJ's text editor to be vastly less comfortable than Emacs+Evil. (Yes, I know about IdeaVim. I used it for years. It doesn't hold a candle.)

Then they started "simpler" IDEs like PHPStorm, but that was fine because I could supplement my IntelliJ with plugins that would basically give me PHPStorm and the like. IntelliJ remained the go-to tool for the polyglot.

The problem were the bugs. 3-4 years sometimes to fix glaring bugs well reported. Some were unheard.

They also made a big spiel about their millisecond to rendering right about the time where I switched to a 4K screen that rendered the IDE completely dead on its knees. The irony! Turns out Java wasn't so good for IDE in macOS retina displays.

You'd code in windowed mode, fine, you stretched open the IDE to fill the screen and every key stroke would then take seconds to render!!

Then one day, C-Lion.

All the sudden, we need a brand new IDE because you know, C++ is that different. OK fine. I don't plan on writing C++. Still though, felt like a cash grab. Then AppCode, then a plethora of other IDE that just feel like cheap IntelliJ-light opportunity to make money.

So I moved to VSCode, grudgingly. Had enough of unanswered bugs, poor performance and focus on everything else but the product that got them there.

VSCode is kinda great. But it's a perfect example of how much Microsoft could strap rockets to pig and make it fly. It's fast. You couldn't write a editor that fast using that technology.

But still VScode irks me with the MSFT part and the future enshitifcation that is all but inevitable.

Recently I found Zed [1]. Zed is what I wanted VSCode to be, and I highly recommended. Sadly it's still lacking in many languages like PHP but I hope one day they get there, because it's absolutely stellar.

I believe it's written in Rust and supports Rust really well. Give it a go. I can't tell if they'll be around in 5 years but I sure damn hope so.

So I'm sorry but I fell out of love with Jetbrains. And you might thing this is a cheap shot but I gave them well over a thousand dollars.

[1] https://zed.dev

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