• @loutr
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    99 months ago

    You can do that if you want to :

    Like many of our IDEs, the functionality of RustRover can be installed as a plugin in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate.

    But if you only care about a particular language/stack you can use the dedicated IDE, it’s cheaper and the UX is optimized for your use case.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      That’s a JetBrains plugin. It is just for JetBrains applications, and it closed source, right? Language servers are basically the metric system of IDEs. I can go from Emacs to Vim to VSCode and just use rust-analyzer for my IDE backend.

      I don’t understand the benefit of using JetBrains specific plugins that only work with JetBrains.

      • @loutr
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        169 months ago

        Because I (and many others) find their products to be far superior to the competition.

        • @[email protected]
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          119 months ago

          This. I’m using PyCharm with the new UI, and watching my colleagues struggle with VSCode is a bit painful to see. Not saying you can’t be productive with it, but why make your life harder than it needs to be?