Tools news

[nrc]

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.

[nrc]

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

[nrc]

Bindgen moved to the nursery

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Also, please note any contributors who should be thanked!

[nrc]

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.

[nrc]

@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?

[nrc]

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

Good idea, I'll add that in

There are Github release notes and I opened #26

Thanks for the PR, merged it.

Did anyone pick up the Rust Starters project?

Not yet.

Until that takes of, do you want the tool peers to supply their pick of easy issues?

For the next issue I'll try to get a link for each tool with labelled easy issues

[GuillaumeGomez]

You can use my own TWiRD generator (minus a few modification for your own needs) if you want.

[fitzgen]

bindgen

• @bkchr added the ability to impl Debug manually in our generated bindings when it can't be derive(..)ed: Implements Debug trait for types which do not support derive Debug rust-lang/rust-bindgen#899
• @bkchr is adding (should land by the time any post is made) the ability to run rustfmt on the emitted bindings: Adds support for running rustfmt on generated bindings rust-lang/rust-bindgen#905
• @photoszzt added the ability to derive(Hash) in the generated bindings: Can derive hash analysis rust-lang/rust-bindgen#887
• @WiSaGaN added support for derive(Copy) on large arrays: Support deriving copy for large array rust-lang/rust-bindgen#874
• @photoszzt ported our analysis for which types can derive(Copy) from an ad-hoc algorithm to our fix-point framework: Can derive copy analysis rust-lang/rust-bindgen#866

[fitzgen]

bindgen

• @tmfink added support for targeting different Rust versions and channels (previously it was a binary stable vs nightly choice): Re-add --rust-target option to replace --unstable-rust rust-lang/rust-bindgen#892

[fbstj]

I think the pull request links in this issue could do with a general cleanup. specifically the bindgen pulls at the start could be changed into [rust-lang-nusery/rust/bindgen#899](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-bindgen/pull/899) (or just [#899] since it's under a bindgen bullet?) for example and similarly the bindgen pulls in the Thanks section could be linked rather than left as text.