I love LSP as much as the next person, but bacon's flicker-free zero config clippy watching basically TAUGHT me Rust!
Bacon – a background Rust code checker
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Re: Bacon – a background Rust code checker
#12Bacon is fantastic. I always have it running when I'm writing Rust. It's very fast/performant.
Re: Bacon – a background Rust code checker
#13I used to code with sublime and compile from time to time to check with compiler. Sometimes I’d go for an hour without running cargo and somehow it worked fine. I have been doing rust since about 2016, in and out, and never questioned the approach but the tooling had improved dramatically in recent years. I have switched to VSCode with rust-analyser and a few other extensions, which not only display errors but also t…
I agree, bacon doesn't seem significantly different from the VSCode problems pane — which also hyperlinks to the locations in question — except perhaps the way problems are sorted between the two.
Re: Bacon – a background Rust code checker
#14I use this exclusively in my IDE (RustRover). I've never had a recent IDEA that had a usable "problems" or whatever window. I wish there was a bacon for Go, too. I check for compile problems in Go from the terminal with AwesomeConsole or whatever it's called (in GoLand).