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Full Rust setup in VSCode/Atom Issue

This is a long post, sorry.

I have been trying to start a project, using Rust, but ran into a problem: it just does not work correctly on Linux in VSCode/Atom.

Wasted 3 days, searching online, trying different tutorials/videos - nothing worked + most of the material is from 2017. I have tried Matrix chat, but no one knew what to do. Git too has no solution as people keep suggesting very random things, like "change this variable in toml file to something else, and back again"

Git: https://github.com/rust-lang/rls-vscode/issues/513

I installed (and re-installed rust many times in the last 3 days), and it works just fine from the terminal, but not in the Editor.

Two Issues:

  1. Editors don't see any crates, so you can't run your code from the editor.
  2. Autocomplete does not work (only works on std, not on extra crates you add).

What I did (out of many other things):

  1. install Rust (on Manjaro and Debian computers): curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Tried stable, beta, nightly (for racer) Just did a clean install again:

stable installed - rustc 1.40.0 (73528e339 2019-12-16)

Rust is installed now. Great!

  1. Installed Rust (rls) rust-lang.rust extension in VSCode (and rust in Atom)

  2. Created a new project: cargo new test_proj and added new rand = "0.6" to [dependencies] and used cargo build. It did build rand

  3. Added "rust-client.enableMultiProjectSetup": true to the settings file to avoid a warning: A Cargo.toml file must be at the root of the workspace in order to support all features. Alternatively set rust-client.enableMultiProjectSetup=true in settings. by Rust (rls)

  4. I also install 'code runner' extension that I use with Python, C++, and Java, to run the code from within the editor.

So now I have just the main func and it runs just fine from the editor:

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Now I add rand and it seems to work, and does SOME auto-completion...

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But now it stops working:

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OK, I will finish the code and try running it, And now we can't run it anymore as the crate is missing:

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OK, let's try Ctrl + Shift + B and try cargo build:

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For some odd reason, it is looking in /media/Work/Work/rust_code and not in /media/Work/Work/rust_code/test_proj/

One last thing: let's try running in the terminal:

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So it does work just fine.

Sorry for the long post, but I have wasted 3 days now and it still can't get it up and running. Did anyone manage to set this up at all?

It has to be Atom or VSCode as I have all of the other languages/projects setup there + VSCode is listed on the official Rust website, so I presume it should work.

Basically, out of two editors (VSCode and Atom), that have Debugging capabilities, unlike Intellij Rust, both don't work for me and I just can't code in Rust as tools are literally broken/not mature enough for productive work. Please let me know if I am wrong and it is just a case of one little flag, that everyone forgets to mention, is missing in some config.

Solution

  • I have figured out one part: problems with running your code from within the VSCode. I had to modify default code-runner command for rust:

    Original command:

    "rust": "cd $dir && rustc $fileName && $dir$fileNameWithoutExt",

    Changed to:

    "rust": "if [ $(basename $dir) = 'examples' ]; then cargo run --example $fileNameWithoutExt; else cargo run; fi",

    And now it works, and I can run my code quickly.

    Part 2: Autocomplete still is very very bad, unfortunately. I am using RLS. there is this thing racer. Is it a better choice?

    Alternatively, I have heard praise about using IntelliJ + the Rust plugin, but I haven't used it myself yet.

    As I mentioned in my previous post, IntelliJ, free edition does not have a debugger from what I can see. I need it.

    I am wondering how people get a good autocomplete from Rust?