Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019

Re:Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019 by n-gatedotcom on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:34AM (#18699966)

As an end user, one thing I care a lot about is if the dev env would be truly integrated. I want a one-click/command install of everything that I need for my vim to be a rust IDE. I tried in vscode and had to install two different plugins (one of which had a similar name to another and I had to go look up which one to install) python and then lldb using admin permissions which failed on my school computers .

Side: Has emacs been losing traction slowly? It's a third of vim!

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Re:Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019 by pjmlp on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:46AM (#18700053)

For me XEmacs was the go-to environment while I didn't had access to Borland like IDEs on UNIX environments.

Nowadays XEmacs seems to have died, I have plenty of IDEs to choose from for my favourite languages, even on GNU/Linux and Emacs seems to still lack some of the nice features of XEmacs.

As for VIM, I learned VI on Xenix, but never could bother to actually use it more than for profile files, or as the go-to editor over telnet/ssh sessions when nothing else was installed by default.

I assume many on the IDE camp might share a similar experience.

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Re:Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019 by theredbox on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:37AM (#18699985)

AFAIK it was always behind VIM. People learned vim because of its ergonomics and install base.

Also many people did not know TRAMP is a thing so yeah...

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Re:Rust Analyzer in 2018 and 2019 by n-gatedotcom on Monday December 17, 2018 @11:46AM (#18700056)

Wasn't emacs farther ahead for full-time programmers though? I'd love to see if there were some historical stats.

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