

There is a lot of information out there and I don’t profess this is the best or only way, but it is an amalgamation of a variety of articles leaning heavily on official documentation and it’s worked for me. This write-up is about configuring VS Code to write, build, and debug Rust applications. Today my preferences are IntelliJ and VS Code. I cut my teeth on basic text editors and quickly adopted to various IDEs over the years as they help speed up workflow. I am not a big fan of VIM and basic editors. This post will assist anyone wanting to develop Rust applications using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) as of 2020. Rust has been gaining popularity and is seeing tremendous adoption amongst developers.
