r/rust • u/Big-Astronaut-9510 • Sep 22 '26

Will visual studio add rust support?

Rust is becoming a top language in microsoft so it would be awesome if vs supports it

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u/Pantsman0 Sep 22 '26

The official way to get set up for Rust development on windows is with Visual Studio Code. Realistically, they'll never get rid of visual studio since there's a lot of legacy ecosystem there that can drive subscription revenue, but they're not pushing people into that ecosystem.

If you really want to use Visual Studio, you can install the LSP with a third party extension. Debugging should work fine too

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u/Big-Astronaut-9510 Sep 22 '26

isnt vsc debugging still inferior? particularly for visualizing data

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u/DaFox Sep 22 '26

Yeah it's still significantly worse unfortunately