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Re: IntelliJ Rust
#2When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn't work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#3Surely you mean "IntelliJ rs", right?
Kidding aside, this is nice! Always happy to see more support for Rust, and I'm usually pretty impressed by what JetBrains brings to the table in their IDEs, so this is promising! Hopefully this will be one of those cases where the less you need an IDE, the more comfortable the features are for the ones that are built.
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#4When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn't work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?
> I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc.
This hasn't been fixed, but it's my biggest pain point.
> felt very sluggish to me
We're working in a Rust workspace monorepo with about 30 crates and it feels fast.
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#5When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn't work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?
I have been using this for a while and don't have to do much. It automatically reloads for me. My only gripe is that it won't allow me to right-click and automatically create a use statement for Derive macros. But I may be spoiled by switching back and forth between Kotlin and Rust.
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#6When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn't work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?
I personally haven't experienced that issue, but in my experience IntelliJ IDEs can offer a different experience per environment based on your Java and filesystem settings.
Especially if you happen to be doing anything like using WSL or a mounted network share. For example, I had to do a lot of workarounds to resolve indexing and line ending issues while working on a Windows machine and running my code on a remote container server running nix.
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#7When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn't work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?
I've not had that experience personally, and I've used CLion with the rust plugin for quite a while.
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#8Surely you mean "IntelliJ rs", right? Kidding aside, this is nice! Always happy to see more support for Rust, and I'm usually pretty impressed by what JetBrains brings to the table in their IDEs, so this is promising! Hopefully this will be one of those cases where the less you need an IDE, the more comfortable the features are for the ones that are built.
For anyone reading the comments with the assumption the OP link is just for the longstanding rust plugin, it is. Do not take the comment above to mean a standalone rust IDE, a la Goland, was announced. Hopes lifted, hopes dashed.
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#9Is there something new here, or is this just a link to the existing Rust plugin, such as I've already been using from CLion for a couple years?
(When I first saw the link I was wondering if JetBrains had decided to release a Rust-centric IDE, and was briefly excited (tho I have a CLion license) but seems that's not the case.)
FWIW latest changelog on the plugin @ https://intellij-rust.github.io/2023/07/10/changelog-198.htm...
Re: IntelliJ Rust
#10When I used this plugin in CLion to work on Rust projects it felt very sluggish to me (I had to re-execute Cargo commands to get it to pick up on new files etc., and autocomplete basically didn't work). Has this been fixed, or was it some error on my end?
There's a project setting for running linting tools on the fly rather than when invoking actions. These will do stuff like lint and refresh stuff as you type, but it adds latency and other weird jitters if the tools take longer than expected to finish execution. This is indicated next to the checkbox that enables the setting.
I usually turn the setting on, but there are a few projects that do make the UI sluggish where u have to turn them off. I'm not entirely sure what the problem is, some code with many dependencies works absolutely fine while some code with only basic crates turns into a lagfest. My suspicion is that there's a crate somewhere deep down the dependency tree that makes use of some very intensive macros that trip up the tooling.
I've also noticed that the most recent release of Rust made working with the tooling feel a lot snappier. Not sure what changed, but it's nice to see.
One laat thing I always recommend anyone running into weird IntelliJ/Clion/IDE slowdowns: check the difference between antivirus off/on to see if that influences things. Windows Defender just can't seem to deal with a program opening many small files. What this means for you depends (you probably shouldn't disable AV on a company laptop) but it may solve the mystery why your experience doesn't match other people's.