bug#42991: Rust support

bug#42991: Rust support

[Alexander Summers]

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Are their any plans to add Rust-specific features in Emacs? It would be
nice to have a built-in compiler as well as syntax highlighting.

Thanks,
Alexander Summers

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bug#42991: Rust support

[phillip.lord]

On 2020-08-23 02:04, Alexander Summers wrote:
> Are their any plans to add Rust-specific features in Emacs? It would
> be nice to have a built-in compiler as well as syntax highlighting.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alexander Summers

There are two Emacs modes for Rust already (rust-mode and rustic). 
Neither are under GPL and both have a lot of contributors, so getting 
those into the Emacs distribution would be an uphill struggle.

Phil

bug#42991: Rust support

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Are their any plans to add Rust-specific features in Emacs? It would be
  > nice to have a built-in compiler as well as syntax highlighting.

Could you explain what you mean by "built-in"?  And why that would
be advantageous?

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bug#42991: Rust support

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

phillip.lord@russet.org.uk writes:

> On 2020-08-23 02:04, Alexander Summers wrote:
>> Are their any plans to add Rust-specific features in Emacs? It would
>> be nice to have a built-in compiler as well as syntax highlighting.
>> Thanks,
>> Alexander Summers
>
> There are two Emacs modes for Rust already (rust-mode and
> rustic). Neither are under GPL and both have a lot of contributors, so
> getting those into the Emacs distribution would be an uphill struggle.

And rust-mode is on Melpa, so users can just install it via M-x
list-packages, if they want to.

So I don't think there's much scope for working on this in this bug
report, and I'm closing this bug report.

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bug#42991: Rust support

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > There are two Emacs modes for Rust already (rust-mode and
  > > rustic). Neither are under GPL and both have a lot of contributors, so
  > > getting those into the Emacs distribution would be an uphill struggle.

  > And rust-mode is on Melpa, so users can just install it via M-x
  > list-packages, if they want to.

They can do that if they enable MELPA.  But we want to have a good
Rust mode included in the Emacs core.

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bug#42991: Rust support

[phillip.lord]

On 2020-08-25 04:46, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> 
>   > > There are two Emacs modes for Rust already (rust-mode and
>   > > rustic). Neither are under GPL and both have a lot of 
> contributors, so
>   > > getting those into the Emacs distribution would be an uphill 
> struggle.
> 
>   > And rust-mode is on Melpa, so users can just install it via M-x
>   > list-packages, if they want to.
> 
> They can do that if they enable MELPA.  But we want to have a good
> Rust mode included in the Emacs core.


Well, there are already two rust modes (rust-mode and rustic) which have 
significant amounts of shared code, so that I've ended up fixing bugs in 
the two places. Having a third code base would be unfortunate. So, if 
you want this, I think find a way to get either rust-mode or rustic into 
core.

Phil

bug#42991: Rust support

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Well, there are already two rust modes (rust-mode and rustic) which have 
  > significant amounts of shared code, so that I've ended up fixing bugs in 
  > the two places. Having a third code base would be unfortunate.

Not necessarily.  If we can't get papers for either of those two, and
someone starts afresh, eventually that will surpass the old ones and
it won't be important to keep maintaining them.

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