VS Code extension?

[evbo]

Has anyone ever dreamt of all of these idioms being released as a static checker in VS Code, complimentary to rust-analyzer?

It could be like a rust "code stink" indicator, highlighting lines of code that could be unnecessary. After a couple years, maybe most devs would start turning it off, but it would help save ridiculous numbers of hours during that early phase of learning rust.

It could even be sloppily written, generating lots of noise. For instance, highlighting .clone() every time, encouraging a borrow or std::mem::take or another alternative. This way the extension would be cheap advice to run.

[marcoieni]

Couldn't you add some additional checks to clippy instead?

[evbo]

Never really heard of clippy, other than seeing it mentioned. I just use VS code Rust analyzer. How would that look?

[marcoieni]

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/
it's a linter, you can also enable it in vscode 👍