rust-lang/rust-analyzer
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
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Where it stands
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Ranks #536 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 19%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 411 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #30 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 4, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a language server that delivers IDE features for Rust programming using the Language Server Protocol.
- Enables seamless integration of advanced Rust code analysis and editing features across multiple editors.
- Use for enhancing Rust development in editors like VS Code, Vim, or Emacs with smart code navigation and completion.
- Use for integrating Rust code diagnostics and formatting directly within your development environment.
- Use for contributing to or extending Rust language tooling through its modular library-based architecture.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
rust-analyzer is a language server that provides IDE functionality for writing Rust programs. You can use it with any editor that supports the Language Server Protocol (VS Code, Vim, Emacs, Zed, etc).
rust-analyzer features include go-to-definition, find-all-references, refactorings and code completion. rust-analyzer also supports integrated formatting (with rustfmt) and integrated diagnostics (with rustc and clippy).
Internally, rust-analyzer is structured as a set of libraries for analyzing Rust code. See Architecture in the manual.
If you want to contribute to rust-analyzer check out the CONTRIBUTING.md or if you are just curious about how things work under the hood, see the Contributing section of the manual.
If you want to use rust-analyzer's language server with your editor of choice, check the manual. It also contains some tips & tricks to help you be more productive when using rust-analyzer.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+230 stars over 86 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +7 on Sep 14.
Forks
2.3K+112
Open issues
1.8K+111
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| rust-lang/rust-analyzer | 16.9K | +0 | 75 | today |
| Category median | 53.6K | +3.2K | 59 | — |
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