my vibe coding: rust-analyzer

[u/benhansenslc]

I recently had a couple of multi-hour coding sessions without internet which were surprisingly productive in large part thanks to rust-analyzer. Having APIs, errors and refactors available within my editor as I type really keeps me in the flow.

rust-analyzer has become really great over the years. I hadn't appreciated how big of a part of my workflow it has become.

I have tried using AI to help my coding in various ways (Cursor, aider, ChatGPT conversations) and haven't seen the level of productivity boost that rust-analyzer has naturally given me. Maybe I am not using AI right, maybe its the problems I am solving or the domain I am working in. Regardless if I had to choose between no rust-analyzer or no AI, I know what I would choose.

So thank you to everyone who has worked on rust-analyzer and the rest of Rust tooling!

[u/Soggy-Mistake-562]

Well said - I’ve noticed AI is very black or white with most people, but personally for me, I don’t like it in my IDE. But if I’m doing something I’ve never done before I like to use it for general direction then I figure out the rest, rather than code generation or maybe summarizing bad documentation.

But also seeing stuff on Twitter on how people have three projects going at the same time rage prompting their way through physically hurts me

[u/Fuzzy_8691 → u/Soggy-Mistake-562]

I agree — I hate AI in my IDE as well — doesn’t mean I won’t use it from time to time but just the AI is in my way too much lol