rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Provide a means of setting the toolchain used by rust-analyzer in VSCode
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Description
I've been reminded how with the python vscode extension you can select the interpreter used from a drop down list, it feels like we should be able to do something similar for the rust toolchain used
Ideally this would only live in the extension, but the toolchain choice is a per workspace thing and so likely needs integration with either rust-analyzer.toml(which does not yet work that well) or interfacing directly with toolchain overrides. Though the rust-analyzer used is not a per toolchain choice, so it might suffice to set it "globally", force the server from the toolchain to be used etc.
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the VSCode extension's toolchain integration and the issue's suggested rust-analyzer.toml and toolchain override approaches. Done should mean a workspace can select the Rust toolchain used by rust-analyzer without requiring a manually maintained override.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100