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Is it possible to write Rust on a low end system? (lemmy.today)

submitted 3 days ago by silly_goose@lemmy.today to c/rust@programming.dev

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Rust analyzer and compilation are very slow. My system is heating up, running out of ram and disk space. I have 8 GB ram.

I use helix editor.

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[–] dashdsrdash@awful.systems -3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This will work if you use emacs or vim. The problem is helix.

[–] silly_goose@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are you sure? I have tried using vim and it was pretty much the same.

I have also confirmed the cause using task manager to be rust analyzer.

[–] coreray00@discuss.online 5 points 3 days ago

The only thing “heavy” about helix is it will download all the tree sitter grammars by default you can limit this, but it’s a disk usage thing.

https://docs.helix-editor.com/languages.html?highlight=Use-Grammars#choosing-grammars

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

do you use zellij or something like that?

[–] silly_goose@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

I don't use zellij. Just normal tabs inside kitty terminal.

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago

What are you talking about??? Helix doesn't even need a plugin for the LSP to work. It just uses rust-analyzer. If anything, Helix has the least overhead of them all.