Introducing RustRover – A Standalone Rust IDE by JetBrains

In the first part of this “What’s New” series, we only saw the tip of the iceberg – various feature bits that the Rust plugin developers managed to implement during the release cycle.Now we’re going to show you the rest of the iceberg. Let’s dig in and look at all the new ways the plugin can now ana…

The time has come to outline the state of the IntelliJ-based IDEs’ Rust plugin as of the 2023.1 release. In the following paragraphs, we’ll delve into the novelties, improvements, and refinements that our team has delivered throughout the release cycle. Follow the post to learn more about the sig…

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Most JetBrains IDEs are built on top of the IntelliJ Platform, which is continuously being enhanced and improved in various ways. When the IntelliJ Platform team introduces a new feature or improvement to the platform, each IDE then “inherits” those, sometimes as-is and sometimes by adding customiza…

The results of the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2022 are in! Every year JetBrains conducts a survey to deepen our knowledge of the developer community and how it has changed over the past year.  Let’s dive into the report’s findings with the help of three members of the Rust community: …

In the 2022.3 release cycle we’ve enabled macro expansion for function-like and derive macros and build script evaluation by default.  We’ve implemented code insight features like the intention action preview, among others. The Run/debug section includes various improvements, and we’…

We use a lot of tools for software development. Compilers, linkers, package managers, code linters, and, of course, IDEs are essential parts of our work and life. There are areas where single-tool efforts are not enough to provide the best user experience. In Rust, macro support is definitely someth…

Hello, We are interested in learning how exactly Rust and C/C++ ecosystems coexist. That’s why we’d like to learn from Rust developers about their experience and best practices with C and C++ code in their Rust code base. We would appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes to fill out a survey. The…

Build scripts is a Cargo feature that allows executing any code prior to building a package. We implemented support for build scripts evaluation in the IntelliJ Rust plugin a long time ago, but up until now, we hid it under the org.rust.cargo.evaluate.build.scripts experimental feature. As we are no…

In this release cycle, we’ve enabled a new approach for detecting changes in configuration files, as well as a new way to reload project models. We’ve improved performance and implemented various type inference improvements. IntelliJ Rust now highlights outdated or missing dependencies in Car…

In our previous blog post, we discussed the essence of Rust’s procedural macros. Now we invite you to dive deeper into how they are processed by the compiler and the IDE. Compilation of procedural macros To start, let’s see how we might write a ‘Hello, world’ program using a separate crate ins…