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It took a long time for Java IDEs to not suck -- and complex GUI applications aren't exactly the open-source community's strong point.

The way forward on that front would require, IMO, some external actor to smell profit in a Rust IDE. That has been sloooowly becoming more likely as the stdlib inches toward stability.



There are new languages with quite nice IDE support e.g. Swift or Kotlin.


Both of those examples are languages designed by IDE vendors, and their real IDE support comes from those vendors (Apple in the case of Swift, JetBrains in the case of Kotlin). It takes a bit longer when you can't just task an existing IDE development team to build your language support :). That said, I think that Rust has made fantastic progress towards IDE integrations so far.




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