An overview about the state of Rust support by text editors and their integrated brethren.
Below you'll find a table listing the comparable features of editors, followed by specific information about single programs. The last part presents some more tooling of Rust's ecosystem.
Syntax highlighting (.rs) | Snippets | Code Completion | Linting | Go-to Definition | Syntax Checking | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atom | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓2 | ✓1 | ✓2 | |
| BBedit | ✓1 | ✓1 | ||||
| Emacs | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓2 | ✓1 | ✓2 | ✓1 |
| Textadept | ✓ | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓1 |
| Sublime | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓2 | ✓1 | ✓2 | |
| Vim | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓2 | ✓2 | ✓1 | |
| VS Code | ✓ | ✓ | ✓2 | ✓2 | ||
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| Geany | ✓ | |||||
| Kate | ✓ | ✓2 | ||||
| Eclipse | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓2 | ✓1 | ||
| Visual Studio | ✓ | ✓2 | ✓1 | |||
| IntelliJ IDEA | ✓1 | ✓1 | ✓1 | |||
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| SolidOak | ✓ | ✓2 | ||||
✓ = supported out-of-the-box, ✓1 = supported via plugin, ✓2 = supported via racer and plugin
Important packages: language-rust, linter-rust (relying on linter), racer
2015-08-16
Important packages: Rust-BBEdit
2015-10-14
Important packages:Rust-IDE
2016-01-12
Important packages: rust-mode, flycheck-rust, emacs-racer, rust-snippets
2016-04-26
Specific highlights: Geany is one of the few editors with syntax highlighting out-of-the-box (since 1.24). It has built in scripts to run rustc, and even cargo support is coming soon™.
2015-08-16
Specific highlights: Kate is one of the few editors with syntax highlighting out-of-the-box.
2015-08-16
Important packages:ta-rust,ta-toml
Specific highlights: Textadept is one of the few editors with syntax highlighting out-of-the-box (since 8.0). The module has built in scripts to run rustc with simple syntax checking and cargo support.
2015-10-13
Important packages: TOML, Rust Package, RustAutoComplete, YouCompleteMe plugin, SublimeLinter-contrib-rustc (relying onSublimeLinter),RustCodeFormatter
2015-10-15
Important packages: rust.vim, YouCompleteMe-rust, vim-racer, syntastic, vim-snippets(relying onUltiSnips)
2016-01-12
Important packages:Rusty Code
2015-12-01
Important packages: RustDT
With RustDT installed, you get:
2015-08-16
Important packages:Visual Rust
With Visual Rust you get
2015-09-25
SolidOak is the first Rust-specific IDE. It has integrated
It wraps Cargo instructions for creating, building, testing and running projects.
2015-08-16
Important packages:intellij-rust, idea-rust(obsolete)
2015-10-31
Racer is a code completion tool for Rust that is developed standalone. It is the basis for code completion in pretty much every setup.
2015-08-16