Ultimate Neovim setup for Rust development

[@letsgetrusty]

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[@Adam-om9si]

Crazy how i started nvim 3 weeks ago and you came out with this vid. Thanks so much.

[@Duckless137]

I started TWO DAYS BEFORE he put this out!

[@ntippy]

0:33 "keyboard exclusively as God intended" for the win

[@fabricehategekimana5350]

Vim/Neovim mention ! Let's go !!!

[@thingsiplay]

Go mentioned, let's rust !!!

[@gekkoe808]

Good stuff. Worth noting though that if you're doing this on Linux you'll want to change the line in plugins/init.lua from local liblldb_path = extension_path.. "lldb/lib/liblldb.dylib" to local liblldb_path = extension_path .. "lldb/lib/liblldb.so" or your debugger won't work. (Also not sure why youtube is trying to make a link out of the previous line, but ignore that.)

[@slowdownbot7617]

On windows would it work with .lib? I get the error: ...adapter/codelldb exited with code 101 Couldn't connect to 127.0.0.1 :${port}: ECONNREFUSED And it does not work.

[@gekkoe808]

@@slowdownbot7617 on windows you want the following two changes: codelldb_path = extension_path .. "adapter\\codelldb.exe" liblldb_path = extension_path .. "lldb\\bin\\liblldb.dll"

[@Gabonidaz]

@@slowdownbot7617 did you manage to make debug work on windows? i'm trying but i'm getting the same error ECONNREFUSED

[@slowdownbot7617]

@@Gabonidazyes, you need to change the paths. I used the following: \\extensions\\ adapter\\codelldb.exe lldb\\bin\\lldb.lib

[@camorimd]

@@slowdownbot7617 Same here :( Did you manage to make it work?

[@marcelo55869]

7:50 "dap-ui my boi" ~Picollo to Gohan probably

[@TheAlexgoodlife]

More like bully maguire

[@marcelo55869]

@@TheAlexgoodlife kzbin.info37chTU07B8A

[@yurari_san]

I was trying to build a neovim environment to do Rust coding and you were very helpful! Your videos were very easy to follow.

[@codetothemoon]

as God intended! great video 😎

[@weiminghu2357]

Thank you very much! I'm so happy to see nvim has developed so much!

[@hadialkmishe1438]

didnt mental outlaw just make the same video

[@Peshyy]

came for this

[@18o4]

exactly

[@alomac8976]

he did

[@pluto8404]

darn. My 2 favorite people. Guess they have been compromised by the cia. They are lizard people now.

[@vikaspoddar001]

But his video has more info for beginners i guess

[@marcins.1128]

You can both open and close the terminal with Alt-h, or Alt-v (vertical) or Alt-i (floating)

[@GameDSS]

Hi quick question. I don't have any configs when I run the debugger so I end up with an error. Can you explain me how to add configs to the dap?

[@mcdermottpa]

Great video. It helped me sort out a few issues in my config.

[@RootsterAnon]

I adore AstroNvim and is my forst choice for writing code.

[@daniel29263]

Same, I can't be bothered learning the nvim api and lua. Astro is a great choice for people like me.

[@Pjiwm]

Exactly. Got it from boilerplate.

[@Mr.BinarySniper]

Same here.

[@gabrielrmunoz]

Hello! I ask from ignorance, sorry if anyone is offended, why would you want to use Neovim instead of an IDE like VS Code? Isn't it more complicated to work from a terminal, while with an IDE everything is faster and simpler?

[@MrDujmanu]

Depends what you mean by "everything is faster with an IDE", what are we measuring? Time to set up a working configuration? Regardless, my answer to your question is a rather subjective one. Pretty much depends what tool(s) you're most comfortable with. I've been using Vim for aprox 20 years and recently Neovim, I've touched Intellij products, MS Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans ... you get the gist, but I could never settle for any of them. I'm also coming from a sys admin background from back in the days, when I'd had to ssh into a machine and do my work there - V/im was 100% of the times my best friend. Granted, Vim has a steep learning curve, but once it gets into your fingertips there's no way back. The code editing gymnastics that's available in Vim has no match in any of the IDEs. Anyway, my point here is that a comparison between Vim and any IDEs is irelevant. Use whatever option you're most comfortable with.

[@sighupcmd]

I'd never call vs code IDE. Just an another text editor, like vim/emacs. Jetbrains products are IDEs

[@michaelmueller9635]

Do Neovim and you understand your projects. This IS fast and simple.

[@rasibn]

neovim can use all the features of vscode and has keybinds that are easier to learn. If u have watched theprimagen code on stream, you can see how quickly he can move with a basic neovim setup.

[@itsmenewbie03]

we use it to have the right to say "I use Neovim BTW"

[@cabeloDoPardal2]

finally I got it working, Thank you very much.

[@BohdanTrotsenko]

This is golden.

[@valentinplechuc5710]

Great guide thanks for sharing.. I wonder if there is a way to show the inferred type of the variables, like the Vscode does in grey color or similar

[@amaraag9435]

Thank you. How add typescript language server on lsp.config?

[@jmanindahizouse]

which macos terminal app do you use?

[@mazinayman4004]

You can paste without entering insert mode. Just press p

[@letsgetrusty]

Yeah you can tell I'm new to vim haha

[@benibachmann9274]

Thanks for the video! Can you set up cargo check or cargo clippy on save or on type?

[@michaelmueller9635]

Now letsgetrusty is officially part of the cool-kid-gang 🎉🥳🎉

[@serialkiller8783]

i downloaded the initlua and mappings from github and replaced in my config. running dt works but dc doesnt

[@MaazKhalid]

there's a typo in his config on github, on line 16 of mappings.lua instead of being `"dc"` its `"dc>"` remove the `>` at the end

[@ojochegbe_]

Yo I swore never to use nvim but this video just made me change my mind 😂❤

[@tinajastyle]

Bro this is 🔥🔥🔥

[@cristhiamtovar9003]

Cool! Now I’m getting more motivated in learning Rust

[@sdramare864]

Should I have mustache for use NeoVim? Is it really mandatory?

[@letsgetrusty]

Yes.

[@marcins.1128]

@@letsgetrusty Richard Stallman who created Emacs, was once asked if using vi was a sin. His aswer was: using vi is not a sin, using vi is a penance.

[@frankjimenez9407]

Rust + Neovim = 👌

[@GoodmanWed]

Thanks very useful video.

[@geetajuyal7115]

What to do if rust-analyzer is unsupported in Mason? 😢

[@theparthsingh]

how can i get code actions to work in this ?

[@zombiegamer8243]

whyyyyyy the rustaceanvim plugin judt borked my code completion

[@meanmole3212]

Does refactoring work?

[@radutomy]

Any plugin that imports missing references/crates at the top of the file automatically? Similarly to how IDEs do it.

[@bstech4803]

I also tried neovim in windows and it sucks. How to do proper configuration for windows? The issue I am having is it fails to load analyzer.

[@nrosquist]

run this in an administrator powershell: rustup component add rust-analyzer Then to test it's working run: rust-analyzer --version should fix issue with rust analyzer not being properly installed by Mason

[@akshettrj]

First we had mental outlaw and luke smith controversy. Now its gonna be mental outlaw and lets get rusty controversy

[@letsgetrusty]

Bring it

[@rey1454]

So straight forward that my eyes went cross.

[@난아스타]

how to enable inlay-hint???

[@736939]

Use Helix, vim-like editor that is written in Rust

[@anamoyeee]

[EDIT: SOLVED] before pasting the nvchad's (not neovim's) install command type the following: set COLORTERM=truecolor Hey, i don't know if that's the right place to ask but uh.. when i try to install nvchad on neovim windows it bluescreens and when i try doing the same within windows subsystem for linux it just doesn't load nvchad. I also tried using 1 other config package other than nvchad but it finished installing with a bunch of errors reported and i just didn't trust this installation to be stable... Do you know of any solutions?

[@rasibn]

Hey I installed neovim from Winget on windows terminal and it works fine.

[@anamoyeee]

@@rasibn I installed neovim fine, just that when i do the nvchad install script it doesnt work and bluescreens for some reason, sorry, my bad i unspecified that... (i edited the comment now...)

[@kuqmua755]

Why it's not Helix setup tutorial?

[@letsgetrusty]

Coming soon :)

[@thingsiplay]

Vim is the Endgame.

[@Mawkler]

9:32 Acschhhhhually the key is \ by default, but most people remap it to space

[@stevanewald106]

Acshhhhhually the key is set to space by default when using nvchad, which this video is.

[@anon_y_mousse]

In a vanilla setup, and I'll never understand why anyone changes it to space. I enjoy typing fast and having tab completions in insert mode, so \ is the better choice.

[@kaanbilgin8245]

saved me from 2 days of agony, kudos

[@xX_SushiRoll_Xx]

8:15 why did you not explain where tf all that code came from. I dont want to have to type all of that out.

[@nrosquist]

there's a link

[@chuckocheret4115]

I forked the nvchad starter repo so that I can track my own changes in my fork (instead of just deleting the .git directory).

[@seneketh]

What about RustRover? (srsly)

[@tom901ful]

The ultimate Chad guide.

[@zatochiSiberian]

Thanks

[@daephx]

A bEaUtIfUl, ViSuAl DeBuGgEr! Neovim is my favorite editor, but the dap-ui plugin is far from my favorite interface. It's just the best available so far.

[@fcolecumberri]

I thought you would use zed.

[@chuckocheret4115]

Worth mentioning is that this setup doesn't seem to work well with the standard MacOS Terminal program, which doesn't support features like true colors. I recommend wezterm, but other modern terminals should work as well.

[@siduck_og]

Nice :)

[@l30n.marin3r0]

This is where people lose me. neovim has a plugin manager built it, why use mason? why install more and more and more and more software? The exact same reason I ran away from react, node, npm and all that crap and exactly the same reason I use vim or neovim over sublime, vscode or whatever else is out there. That being said, nice freaking video!

[@AhnafAbidFahim-h1v]

At the end of the day, everyone wants a GUI, then why not install VSCode straight away?

[@oleksandrkovalov1543]

Lazyvim does all that automatically? It all comes with Lazyvim out of the box..

[@frittex]

reason why you shouldn't use lazyvim, nvchad, lunarvim, etc. is the same as why you shouldn't use arch-install you're using something you didn't build. you don't know how it works, you don't know what you can use, you have to learn the designed workflow instead of building your own. and you're gonna end up rewriting half of the configs anyway. just spend the day or two understanding nvim, so you can save a year or two using it.

[@oleksandrkovalov1543]

@@frittex I did that before. I just don't have enough time to re-invent the wheel every single time, when I can simply use the tool. Nowadays I just do not have as much time as I had almost 25years ago, when I was also compiling Gentoo from different stages, as well as micro optimizing my kernel and so on, and I patiently waited for days for the process to be complete. You have that time - good for you, you can play with the config , rewriting every single line of it if you'd like and there is nothing wrong wth that. I doesn't work for me though.. all the best.

[@frittex]

@@oleksandrkovalov1543 I understand your logic, but at this point, in my opinion, you should be using VSCode with vim motions (or any other editor that supports them)

[@drishalballaney]

@@oleksandrkovalov1543 this is why you just configure once and store the config on git

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@frittex I would've said just use vanilla Vim and configure over time, but that really doesn't work for the majority of modern day developers. Of course, I've had an advantage there in that I've been carrying forward across multiple systems the same config that I used with Vim on Win98.

[@wilder6408]

AstroNvim sets up all this language support for Rust by just like one line call to their AstroCommunity packs. Because all these things should be done by default.

[@MarkusBurrer]

Now do the same for Helix 👍

[@Kiyuja]

I cant wait for Microsoft to provide first party support for Rust in Visual Studio. I have to use Visual Studio Code and I'd love to use MSVS. I dont understand why it isnt implemented like C++ is when MS wants to use Rust more and more but hey....

[@henryvaneyk3769]

IntelliJ is your friend. Dump Visual Studio.

[@Kiyuja]

@@henryvaneyk3769 I use IntelliJ when I do Java...which used to be on a daily and now only occurs once a year. AFAIK you either have to use a wonky plugin or pay money for Rust Rover to develop Rust using JetBrains and no thank you. I love developing C# using Visual Studio and I'd like that type of Linting and Debugging for Rust

[@kazeembalogun7182]

To enable VS Code-like inlay hints with " + i", add the follwing to the main init.lua file- vim.keymap.set("n", 'i', function() vim.lsp.inlay_hint.enable(not vim.lsp.inlay_hint.is_enabled({0}),{0}) end)

[@ntippy]

8:12 this is a bit much for us to type

[@ntippy]

I messed it up bad and then found you had a repo so I could copy these files. you need to open with that point

[@juanmacias5922]

nvim

[@sergiuoanes4635]

or you just go with Helix.... and life is beautiful

[@daniel29263]

I used Helix before nvim, not going back. But I might try it again in a couple of years and see what state it's in.

[@rasibn]

Use Helix and not be able to customize anything. Huge win!

[@Nitiiii11]

If Helix had 2-3 features that I am missing, then imho it would be vastly superior to Neovim. Maybe some day.

[@sergiuoanes4635]

@rasibn I customized a lot of things on my liking. I am pretty happy with the results.

[@letsgetrusty]

Making a video about that soon as well :)

[@cryptonative]

Learnt lifetimes, proc macros, memory ordering and still can exit neovim

[@eriye92]

best video to convince ppl not to use neovim keke

[@psi4j]

Looks like you're just one step away from REALLY throwing the mouse away: also throwing MacOS out the window and using Linux with a tiling window manager like a pro.

[@thomb.9013]

theres tiling window managers for macos too AFAIK

[@waynelau3256]

I think helix is not bad too

[@TenTypekMatus]

Next video: Nix with Rust.

[@kristoferssolo]

Harpoon mentioned

[@solmateusbraga]

Kakoune >>>>>

[@LostRunner0213]

i don't understand the point : if your are comfortable with vim/neovim keyboards so 3/4 of the features seem irrelevent to me the last recommandation 🤮 : LLM for programming (and most of the time) is garbage

[@freedomfury]

Yes NeoVim is great if you have a lot of free time on your hands and are bored or you got OCD syndrom. I'd rather use free RustRover that is ready to go out of the box runs smooth unless you live in a 3rd world country using a $100 laptop and I got my free time to spend doing hobbies or going out with friends.

[@SorinOltean77]

just a suggestion: suspend the microphone holder so it does not capture the sound of your keystrokes. I mean, keystrokes are fine but instead we hear a muffled sound like constantly hitting the desk with something and is annoying for those of us who use headphones.

[@thearyanahmed]

He looks like Arthur Morgan from RDR2

[@cowoverthere5485]

Bikeshedding Gaming

[@rudolfvaneulenstein9896]

just for clarification at 3:16: using rm -rf dir is immensely dangerous, anything that is deleted using this way is certifiably lost forever. best to just move to folder to somewhere else or directly into the trashbin.

[@p99chan99]

"lightweight"

[@abdelk.2060]

imho, sorry, nobody asked, but! it would be much better to make video more friendly. Just instead of VIM, maybe VS CODE?? Yes, some people will hate that question, but yo, not a lot of ppl have ZERO awareness of quitting file after typing `vim ` (most of the ppl just freaking altF4 that beach) Just make it ezier, for the normie bros. (i use nvim tho) P.S. Bogdan, not ironically, thank you for your content. It is really helpful!

[@jasperzanjani]

neovim configuration is not trivial

[@adrian_sp6def]

discuss rust abi

[@Red-Code22]

First viewer

[@fluttermaster6148]

Or you can simplify it with 1 step: 1) Install zed

[@daniel29263]

Seems like a hassle running that over ssh.

[@fluttermaster6148]

essentially zed is neovim speed + vscode out of the box experience =) So, not sure what are you talking about, you can't run custom neovim over ssh as well, you would get default vim only out of the box

[@s1v7]

you ruined it all! you should say - "I use Arch, btw"

[@ctnguyenvn]

...and codium for neovim 😅

[@muhammadharris4470]

All of this can be done with the lazy builtin rust config just by uncommenting rust support in the config.

[@erlangparasu6339]

LazyVim, better docs

[@phelipe8888]

11 comment

[@zeroday171]

second

[@moontracker]

Seriously? Let's spend time on what values most rather than fixing vim to look like cool kids! 😀

[@justabdulmuizz]

first

[@halano]

rust analyzer is the worst LSP ever made it eating my whole system performance compares it to gopls and clangd show big difference.

[@rolandobrien]

Nahhh imma pass

[@charleswheeler3418]

this video is not very helpful for linux users...

[@henryvaneyk3769]

All this work to get VIM to look like IntelliJ? Nah, I'm good.

[@frydac]

It's not for everyone for sure, but do realize this video is not intended to 'sell' neovim, only to show that it can become a very capable Rust editor if you want it to. Most aspects that differentiate are not mentioned, so it is impossible to make an informed decision based on this, of course. If you are content, the by all means, don't worry about it. However, if you are often wishing you could change this or that feature, or customize something, but there isn't an option for it, then maybe look into it a bit more.

[@T1Oracle]

Helix > NeoVim

[@cunbex2183]

Just use helix, 0 conf

[@antergonza6476]

Well done, thnx

[@s.joseph406]

@fabricehategekimana5350 6 hours ago Vim/Neovim mentioned letgs go @ThePrimeTimeagen . Let him cook