Just tried to install clippy. Needs nightly to compile. I'm fairly new here, but I'd like to stay stable as long as I can... is that not a valid goal (honest question).
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Clippy hooks directly into the compiler to bolster the lints, which isn't going to be stable for a long time, if ever.
Using nightly for local development is no big deal ; as long as your CI is stable then you get tools like clippy and compilation improvements for local development.
We have a plan for distributing clippy via rustup, so that it will work with stable rustc too, but there's no ETA on that yet.
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Depending on the feature set, it could also have a mode where it hooks in to RLS for IDE workflows.
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