rust-analyzer wants

[repi]

Wish list of rust analyzer features & bug fixes we would like to see added/improved/fixed based on the Rust projects we've been developing at Embark.

This is not a complete list, but an attempt to keep a bit of structure for our own sake, and may be of interest for rustfmt developers as well.

Should have

Features or fixes that would directly improve or help our workflows

• No completion for impl blocks on dyn traits rust-lang/rust-analyzer#6777
• Unresolved import for SIMD types (CARGO_CFG_TARGET_FEATURE not evaluated?) rust-lang/rust-analyzer#6556
• Feature request: "Stop RA server" VSCode action rust-lang/rust-analyzer#12936
• Feature request: Command to run check/clippy without saving rust-lang/rust-analyzer#13125
• Format on save is delayed rust-lang/rust-analyzer#11654
• [VSCode] Allow to stop cargo on command rust-lang/rust-analyzer#6895
• Support format_args_capture rust-lang/rust-analyzer#11260
• Renaming a captured variable in a formatted string doesn't work rust-lang/rust-analyzer#11296
• Import/qualify trait Deref suggesting lazy_static::__Deref instead of std::ops::Deref rust-lang/rust-analyzer#9197
• dev-dependencies on workspace member cause cyclic dependency issues rust-lang/rust-analyzer#14167

Nice to have

Features or fixes that would be nice to have, but are lower priority to us than the above list.

• "Convert match to let-else" assist rust-lang/rust-analyzer#13254
• GAT support rust-lang/rust-analyzer#9673
• vscode: Inline Suggestions rust-lang/rust-analyzer#9544
• Support Goto Definition into include!  rust-lang/rust-analyzer#3767
• RA does not work at all when offline rust-lang/rust-analyzer#12499
• flycheck: add option to set lower priority rust-lang/rust-analyzer#11352
• Single-package mode rust-lang/rust-analyzer#11181
• Support #[doc = include_str!(...)] in hover documentation rust-lang/rust-analyzer#11137
• Request: Show rustdoc warnings rust-lang/rust-analyzer#9131
• Support completion and for intra-doc links rust-lang/rust-analyzer#8314
• Support VS Code testing API rust-lang/rust-analyzer#3601

Not filed / found

Fixes or enhancements that believe there is no issue for yet, if you find one please do comment and we'll update it here.

• Generally slow performance on our large repositories, unclear how to investigate to share for focused improvements

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Related tracking issues for other Rust components:

• Rust wants #84
• rustfmt wants #83
• Clippy wants #79