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Re:Introducing Rust Language Server on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:24AM (#12743112)
It might have been due to either https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/31319 or an LLVM upgrade. But stuff like looking at the values of basic integer types, the fields of structs, tuple fields, thin pointers, and even many enums works fine. You just have to make sure you have debug info enabled.

Keep in mind std in the Rust distribution was built without debuginfo, so if you step into functions from that, things don't work too well.

Re:Introducing Rust Language Server on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:12AM (#12741019)
Actually, the PDB debug info has variable and type information and a lot of it actually works. There's just a few minor issues here and there with stuff like fat pointers.
Re:Introducing Rust Language Server on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @12:10AM (#12741013)
Yay, someone actually follows that issue.

If you have the time, you should really consider helping to improve the Rust experience on Windows. There's a huge shortage of Windows developers in the Rust community.