So, most of us have probably been on the website https://areweideyet.com/

and it's gotten me thinking, how come there are no open-source/libre IDEs for Rust like C++ has?
There's tons of mature text editors, of course, and some, like NeoVim, can act as an IDE should you throw enough plugins at it, but "True IDE" support is pretty slim - unless you want to pay for IntelliJ, or sell your soul to Microsoft, RIDE died, Corrosion is unmaintained & I crie everytim

Enter: KDevelop (KDevelop - Wikipedia)

It doesn't officially support Rust, programmer Emma Gospodinova made a plugin on behalf of KDE, but that went nowhere unfortunately...

However, I remembered something: a LOT of people use Kate, which is another KDE thing, but is a text editor, to write Rust code, using the rust-lang server, KDevelop, afaik, is identical in the way it handles language servers and the like; to Kate

So, has anyone used KDevelop? How did it go? How did you go about getting Rust to work on it? C++ devs speak highly of KDevelop, but no Rustacean has shared their experience... Do any of you recommend it?

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