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…)

In this post, we’ll take a look at the updates that IntelliJ Rust has received over the 2020.1 release cycle. But before we start, we have an exciting announcement that we would like to share. It is now possible to debug your Rust code in IDEs other than CLion! Here are a few more details: It’s available in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, AppCode, and RubyMine starting with version 2020.1. It works with LLDB on macOS and Linux. It requires the nativeDebug plugin to work in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate. It requires you to download the debugger binaries, which are not bundled. The IDEs will promp

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 expansion engine Other improvements (more…)

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 to start debugging Switching debuggers and renderers Debugging a Cargo Command configuration More debug features (more…)