Have you ever wondered how Rust’s procedural macros work? In this blog post series, we will get into the details! A member of our team, Vladislav Beskrovny, recently gave a talk on the topic at RustCon. This series is based on that talk, with some slight modifications and additions. In this post, we’ll look at the basics of macros in Rust and get into the procedural macros specifics, paying close

In this release cycle, we focused on enriching language support and adding more code insight features. The run and debug functionality has received a few major updates, too. Read on to learn the details. (more…)

Almost two years ago, we published a blog post on the essentials of debugging Rust in CLion. It’s still a great reference for the general debugging procedure. In this blog post, we would like to summarize what’s been improved and updated since then, and also discuss how you can debug with IntelliJ Rust not only in CLion but in other JetBrains IDEs as well. (more…)

For IntelliJ Rust, this release cycle has been full of significant updates. We have added new functionality to language support, code insight, and run/debug support, along with many fixes and smaller enhancements. (more…)

This is the first entry we are publishing in a dedicated blog for IntelliJ Rust! Previously hosted on the CLion blog, our articles were tied closely to that particular IDE. From now on, we’ll be describing the plugin’s news and features with regard to all the IDEs it’s compatible with. Have you already explored the documentation we released a while ago? If not, we encourage you to check it out! It

In the previous blog post on IntelliJ Rust, we described the plugin’s major update of the 2020.3 release cycle – more support and a new UI for Cargo features. In brief, you can now toggle workspace features right in the Cargo.toml file, and code insight across the whole of your project will be adjusted accordingly. Now let’s take a look at the improvements that have been made to this functionalit

Like C/C++ and other native languages, Rust includes support for conditional compilation. The most common way to instruct the compiler whether to include or ignore a piece of code in compilation is to add a cfg attribute with the required condition. For example, you can use this mechanism to check the target architecture and switch code blocks at compile-time depending on the operating system. Int

Read on to learn about the latest updates in the IntelliJ Rust plugin: New macro expansion engine Debugging for Rust’s MSVC Initial support for or_patterns New refactorings Other editor enhancements (more…)

IntelliJ Rust has reached a major milestone: the new macro expansion engine has moved out of the experimental stage and is now enabled by default. In this post, we'll take a closer look at its implementation details and the features it brings for your code. How the plugin expands declarative macros The new engine status Code insight provided by the new engine (more…)

While CLion and all our other JetBrains IDEs were making the transition from version 2019.2 to version 2019.3, the IntelliJ Rust team has been busy making important updates to the plugin. In this post, we would like to give a summary of all the features that have been added over the last few months. Cfg attributes support Include! macro support New features of the experimental macro expans

It’s been a while since we last dedicated a whole blog entry to IntelliJ Rust. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how the plugin cooperates with CLion when it comes to debugging your Rust applications. We’ll start by diving right into a debug session to get a grounding in the basics, and then we’ll explore the debugger settings and additional options in detail. Before you begin How