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The author of rust-analyzer discussing how language features help or hinder fast IDEs. If you allow `from m import *` you can't analyse files in isolation, and it's even harder in Rust.

Structs are great in Rust, but sometimes I find them a bit heavyweight. There's a little more syntax than e.g. OCaml, for type definitions and usages. I end up using more structs (records) in OCaml as a result. rust-analyzer has "convert tuple to named struct", which helps.

I enjoyed this interview with Lukas Wirth, one of the maintainers of rust-analyzer: https://rustacean-station.org/episode/lukas-wirth/ I didn't realise how little code was shared between rustc and rust-analyzer (only lexing and type layouts). This makes it hard to track new Rust features.