Feature Request: Rust Support

I’ve been working on integrating a Rust project with a large multi-language repository, and we’re successfully building Rust binaries via rules_rust and cargo raze. However, we have not been able to get the projects working within CLion or Intellij IDEA, I think in part because the plugin does not yet support it.

Is Rust support something that the Intellij plugin authors would be open to? I am happy to dedicate time to making this come to fruition, if it is desired. Roughly speaking, what would it take to get this working?

[jin]

Currently, we don’t have bandwidth or domain expertise to support new languages like Rust, and there isn’t a process to add a new language yet. It’s possible to work on a fork of this project to add Rust support, but until the details are ironed out, we cannot support this yet.

One of the things that’s high on my list to do is to implement a pluggable framework so that rule owners / domain experts (e.g. rules_rust) can integrate with this plugin without having to extend the core IntelliJ plugin, similar to how Starlark has provided Bazel core with extensibility.

[alexjpwalker]

I’ve opened a PR which integrates with the IntelliJ Rust plugin to deliver Rust support.

• #3222

It depends on

• https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/pull/8491

I’ve uploaded an example project, and demo of the plugin’s capabilities, at https://github.com/vaticle/bazel-intellij-rust-example

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/14253102/151391801-a7551fcb-0322-4ed5-adc1-f11784a3b106.mov

The PR’s architectures are suboptimal, looking for some insider knowledge to bring them to production grade!