Hacker News Reader

Comment by nicce | Hacker News Reader

The plugin is deprecated now, so I believe so.

The old plugin is deprecated, but the new plugin installs fine into CLion. The question is how long that will be the case.

Because I work at a company that is mostly C++, with some Rust. My team's project is 90% Rust, but I still need to do C++ now and then. I'd be super annoyed to lose that.

They should at least continue to offer the plugin as a paid expansion option for CLion.

Yeah, the future is a big question. Here is quote from some mail:

> As said in the announcement, RustRover is available as a plugin to IntelliJ IDEA during the preview period. However, we have yet to determine whether this will be the case once we’ve released RustRover. This is because we’re still not certain whether users will need the plugin or whether a dedicated Rust IDE will be sufficient. Around the release time, when we make our decision. We’ll also consider the cases when IntelliJ IDEA licenses were primarily bought for Rust development with the IntelliJ Rust plugin and which options we can suggest to our users in these cases. Please stay tuned!

https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/10867#...

Yep, I got intellij to work with python/rust/scala and it's frustrating to see it pulled out like that. Not sure why they need to sell so many IDEs that are almost identical. Would've been happy with some upcharge for a "premium" plugin but I don't want to install three IDEs like they apparently want me to.

from what I understood there is “Intellij IDEA Ultimate” which allows you to enable all the features of the specific IDEs as if they are plugins.

No, this only works for a few languages supported as plugins. Most of JetBrains IDEs are separate even if built on a same core. I have all products license and still can't use a single app to access all languages.

even with the supported plug-ins it's still not the same either. intellij with python plugin has just enough differences with it that it throws off some of my coworkers who use pycharm.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com