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Ask HN: Nearly a year later, how does RustRover compare to VSCode

by Heidaradar on 7/16/24, 1:20 PM with 3 comments

• by turtle_heck on 7/16/24, 1:28 PM

  I was using (and paying for) Clion and using that Rust for quite a while, when RustRover came out I switched to it and stopped paying for Clion (There was no option to pay for RustRover) then randomly one day, a week or so ago, I could no longer launch RustRover as I now needed a license. I was trying to open up an old project before a meeting to discuss some details but couldn't use RustRover to do it (I didn't have time to purchase it before the meeting.) So I opened it in Sublime Text (which I also pay for) to get the info I needed.

  I was annoyed about the inability to access my own project, without warning, so I tried VSCode instead of buying RustRover. It's missing a few things (or I just don't know how to do them in VSCode yet) but I don't suspect it will ever lock me out of my own project without warning and it seems good enough so I'm going to stick with it until I can't.

  I don't have an issue for paying for software but am not a fan of the way JetBrains went about it for RustRover.