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by csomar 1011 days ago
I am going to give this a shot but I am not sure what's the attraction anymore with Copilot + LSP.

- Auto-completion: However smart it is, it can't beat copilot.

- Type information: LSP can do that. (along with access to docs, error/warning highlighting, etc..)

- Debugger: There isn't a good one (or at least a good one that can be easily configured) for neovim yet. That's something I really miss for my toolbox.

- Cargo.toml: There is already a neovim plugin for that!

- VCS: I don't mind having a separate app for VC. But there isn't a good GUI app for Linux.

So far, it's only two points I am interested in; and only the debugger is the thing that I miss the most. I am wondering if better debugging tools (like LSP) somehow make it to Rust (along with maybe ownership/lifetime LSP like tools), then the market for an IDE becomes null?

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> - Auto-completion: However smart it is, it can't beat copilot.

That's news for me!

I write C# in Rider and I'm a copilot subscriber. However if I have to choose between Rider's auto-completion and Copilot, then the choice is painfully obvious.

Sublime merge runs on linux. Why is it not a good git gui?