Tools news

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This is an issue to collect news about dev tools. If anything is happening, however minor, please leave a comment and let us know. Periodically (weekly, or less often, depending on much news we get) I'll edit all the comments into a document, add it to the repo, and post to TWiR (and tweet, etc.). Then open a new issue.

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RLS

• configuration of save-analysis - perf boost

VSCode plugin

• Published extension - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=rust-lang.rust

Rustfmt

• released v0.2
• no backup files by default
• orders imports

Clippy

• moved to nursery

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Bindgen moved to the nursery

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Also, please note any contributors who should be thanked!

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Also good things to have here - call for contributions - either general announcements or specific issues

[fitzgen]

bindgen

• @photoszz has been re-writing various ad-hoc computations into fix-point analyses:
  • whether we can add derive(Debug) to a struct: Use fix point analysis to implement can_derive_debug rust-lang/rust-bindgen#824
  • and whether a struct has a virtual table: has vtable analysis rust-lang/rust-bindgen#850

[jwilm]

Racer

• Released 2.0.10 changelog

Shout out to @TedDriggs for continuing to push the project forward. Myself and the rest of Racer's users continue to appreciate all your hard work!

[fitzgen]

bindgen

• Released version 0.29.0; started a u.r-l.o thread for release announcements: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/bindgen-automatically-generate-rust-ffi-bindings-to-c-and-c-libraries/12126

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IntelliJ plugin is official! https://intellij-rust.github.io/2017/07/31/changelog-47.html

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Release vscode extension 0.2.0 and 0.2.1, see changelog

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I blogged about the RLS: http://www.ncameron.org/blog/what-the-rls-can-do/

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I have drafted a first issue of 'these weeks in dev-tools': https://github.com/nrc/dev-tools-team/blob/master/twidt/drafts/issue-1.md

I'd love to get feedback and any remaining updates! Please send PRs or comment here or just commit typo fixes. If you could do that by the end of the week so that I can publish and copy/paste or link into TWiR, I'd appreciate it!

One notable area we're missing is stuff for new contributors including a list of good issues. I don't feel organised enough to do that for the first issue, but it's top of my list of things that we need for future issues.

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@killercup do you have a cargo edit link/announcement?

[killercup]

I'd love to get feedback and any remaining updates!

You should mention that people can find us on #rust-dev-tools :)

do you have a cargo edit link/announcement?

There are Github release notes and I opened #26

One notable area we're missing is stuff for new contributors including a list of good issues.

Yeah. Did anyone pick up the Rust Starters project? Until that takes of, do you want the tool peers to supply their pick of easy issues?