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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 functionality already, along with other updates the plugin has received over the last few months: More code insight for Cargo features Rustfmt as default formatter Improvements in refactorings New experimental e

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. IntelliJ Rust detects conditionally disabled blocks in your project and excludes them from the codebase. This means that name resolution and analysis ignore those pieces, so you won't get errors and warn

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 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…)