Support Rust

[peterschussheim]

Hi,

So far I am loving Sourcetrail and would like to see Rust support added. Thank you.

[egraether]

+1 by mail

[egraether]

+1 by mail

[adrianperreault]

+1

[sudeep9]

+1

[svraghavan]

+1

[egraether]

Since we cannot keep up with language requests, we created the SourcetrailDB library to allow anyone to write custom indexers and extend language support for Sourcetrail.

If you are interested in writing an indexer for Rust, please let us know!

[jdm]

Building an indexer on top of Mozilla's searchfox Rust indexer, or rls_analysis (which searchfox depends upon) is probably the quickest path forward.

[mlangkabel]

Thanks for the pointers! Do you know if we can get calls, uses, etc. data from that? And also the source locations there those calls and uses happen?

[jdm]

It looks like rls_analysis provides information that can be turned into that data: https://docs.rs/rls-data/0.19.0/rls_data/struct.Analysis.html

[XVilka]

#750 might be the way to go too.

[Champii]

I've started (early and not yet working) Rust support development on SourcetrailDB CoatiSoftware/SourcetrailDB#16.
While other approach may prove to be valid, this could be one way to reach full Rust support inside Sourcetrail.

Feel free to contribute or criticise (constructively) on the matter :)

[astrolemonade]

"See also cargo-src, which uses the metadata produced by the compiler (i.e. cargo check).
The approach I suggest is to run cargo check, then convert the analysis results into the Sourcetrail format, it should work."
Credit: WellMakeItSomehow Reddit

[jdm]

rls_analysis uses the same compiler output already.

[kajogo777]

+1