Since I moved from CLion + intellij-rust to VS Code + rust-analyzer, I was very pleased with the experience. Rust-analyzer provides a competitive feature set and it feels mostly feature-complete.
However, my experience is much worse on VS Code when it comes to editing Cargo.toml. Rust-analyzer itself doesn't seem to interact with Cargo.toml at all, and it seems that there is no community-recommended extension for Cargo.toml support. I currently use Even Better TOML and Search crates.io, but the auto-completion features are very minimal. I miss a lot of things, for example:
- Proper crate name auto-completion that works across
dependencies/dev-dependencies/build-dependenciesand can handle snake case/kebab case conversion. - Version auto-completion and an ability to select a version from a list.
- Feature names auto-completion.
- An option to turn short dependency syntax (
x = "1.0") into long syntax (x = { version = "1.0", features = [...] }) and back.
Is there an extension that does this better?
cargo add is a good alternative, but it's less convenient than IDE support.