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Now they need an official Jetbrains IDE and we'll know Rust has made it.

I believe Jetbrains have stated that there would need to be more value to create a whole new product.

Using the plugin with CLion feels very well integrated, and I’m not sure what else we’d get out of a seperate IDE other than more distinct branding.

It's basically already here (in the form of a plugin): https://www.jetbrains.com/rust/ I've been enjoying it quite a bit.

CLion works very well for Rust. It's much better than Android Studio for Flutter/Dart. I use both every day.

I also use CLion and it's very nice. I feel like IDE support is about 80% of what I'd like to see. Some rough edges, especially with the debugger.

But competitive with other languages like Go or Java.

Honestly though, VSCode has been pretty good in this respect. Although I wouldn't use it to write Java or Kotlin, but for C/C++/Zig/D/Rust it's been good.

<raises hand> writing Scala here in VScode.

Some things are better, some worse. Highlights for unused code or imports is imho worse in vscode/metals and refactoring isn't as easy. But running tests for me has always been much faster. Not sure if you can use bloop with intelij but incremental compilation is much better in vscode.

I've had mixed success with VSCode and JVM related stuff. Although the projects I was working on were using some really obscure Maven stuff and god forbid gradle.

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