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What IDE do people use for rust nowadays?


The IDE support use to be very poor but nowadays there are two really nice contenders :

- Jetbrains IDE with the Rust plugin (maintained by Jetbrains itself). The free IntelliJ IDE Community works really well. CLion or IntelliJ Ultimate are necessary for debugging support

- The Rust-analyser tool. A language server that can be used, in theory, on any IDE supporting the LSP protocol. Code is the most used IDE with this tool since it is the reference IDE of the project.


VS Code is one of the more popular ones, although it doesn't really qualify as an IDE. IntelliJ is probably the most popular IDE for Rust development.


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