So, rust-analyzer is already technology wise superior to intellij-rust, not having some annoying bugs and so on. But there is no plugin for intelij ide-s which would support rust-analyzer. Developing two lsp clients seems unreasonable to me, so why is intellij-rust still a thing?

Mainly because it's AFAIK developed by JetBrains themselves and not by Rust community, and for them it's better to have their own implementation, which can be maintained without relying on anything upstream.

Pinging @matklad for exact answer, but I guess that, given the existence of owner-provided plugin, this is simply low-priority.

First of all, I wouldn't say that RA is superior compared to IntelliJ Rust. There are some things we are doing better, some things they are ahead of us. All in all there's actually a bit of healthy competition. Second, IntelliJ has its own analysis infrastructure. To build a good IntelliJ plugin, y…

What Florian says, plus a couple of more points: LSP is still a very bare bones thing, IJ does a lot of things which can not be expressed in LSP. Like, LSP doesn’t really support general refactors where you want some input from the user. Though, ra itself is well positioned to support all those e…

[image] WeetHet: Developing two lsp clients seems unreasonable to me Didn't you mean "lsp servers"? An lsp client is the integration of the language server into a specific editor, and you need at least as many of those as there are editors, because you need integration with editor's APIs and …

Why not replace intelij-rust with rust-analyzer?

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Why don't rust-analyzer developers make a intellij plugin?

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Why not replace intelij-rust with rust-analyzer?

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