Yesterday I have noticed that a brand new Rust JetBrains IDE is available… finally!

The Rust Rover IDE for Rust language is ready to download in EA / preview mode for different platforms: https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/
It will be in this stage (and free) until September 2024 🙂

First feelings:

• Pretty similar to Intellij
• Imports automatically my settings and projects from IntelliJ
• Also you can import you settings from VCS (very interesting feature)
• Includes debug mode!!! (IntelliJ plugins includes only for Ultimate version)
• I have test a couple of my current Rust projects (real world applications) and I feel it works better than IntelliJ with Rust plugin: it looks faster, consumes less memory and compiler / assistant comments are resolved immediately
• Coverage report from test execution is available and very similar to other JetBrains tools (you need an extra step to open the report as HTML)… thanks, thanks and thanks again for include this feature!

Final thoughts

Finally we have a dedicated IDE for Rust development with the features and quality of JetBrains products (ok, ok, I know, RustRover is already on “preview” stage). To be honest, I’m very confident about this new JetBrains release and I hope in 2024 we can have a stable, powerful and (finger cross) affordable coding tool for Rust developers.