TYTyr42·Apr 13, 2016
I think neovim is embeddable?
I'm pretty sure SolidOak just embeds neovim:
https://github.com/oakes/SolidOak
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SolidOak
An IDE for Rust
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2015 | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2015 | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2015 | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2015 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2015 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2015 | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2015 | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2016 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2016 | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2016 | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesUnfortunately, yes :/. Why don't you take a look at this? https://github.com/oakes/SolidOak
I haven't given it a try, but it looks as it provides basic functionality. Since Rust is such a young language, I don't really expect much until at least a few months have passed. We will probably start seeing plugins for Eclipse and other big IDEs in some time.
In Announcing Rust 1.0The one thing which nags me about Rust is the amount of what seem like weird syntax choices, deliberately different from most popular programming languages.
See e.g. line 14 in https://github.com/oakes/SolidOak/blob/master/src/ffi.rs :
let mut fds : [c_int; 2] = [0; 2];
Why not declare the array type as c_int[2]? And why use semicolons instead of commas?
There are enough such "wtf?" moments that it causes pause and a sense of weirdness while reading Rust code, if the reader is familiar with other C-like languages (which is not to say that Rust itself is C-like).
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