Similarity to rust-lang/rust-analyzer

[Tastaturtaste]

Are you in any way affiliated with the rust-analyzer plugin for visual studio code? If so it would be good to show that in your README.

As it is I have the impression of a intentionally misleading name to draw in users.

[parthopdas]

@Tastaturtaste this extension surfaces the rust language server in VS 2022 i.e. the rust-analyzer.exe binary. it is very much the rust-analyzer and therefore rust language team's work. very small part is my own work.

so while not affiliated with the vscode version, it is parallel to the vscode version.

i have changed the name to rust-analyzer.vs and will be adding a VS logo into the RA logo. would that suffice?

[lnicola]

i have changed the name to rust-analyzer.vs and will be adding a VS logo into the RA logo. would that suffice?

That doesn't scream "not official" to me, TBH. I'd personally prefer a blurb like "This plugin is not affiliated with the rust-analyzer project.", which seems more fair. You could should also link to the RA repository and site or user manual. This tells people what features to expect from us, what can be configured, and where to report any issues that are on our side.

But of course, most users will probably not read this, and they might assume it's official because of the name.

[parthopdas]

@lnicola your suggestion is fair to ensure that team doesn't get unwarranted bugs filed against them.

for sure i don't want to name it something jazzy to give the impression this plugin does some extraordinary when pretty much all it does is expose rust-analyzer.exe with rest of the rust tool chain.

i'll push that out in the next release scheduled in a couple of days.

[lnicola]

I think it's more likely that you'll get issues for bugs in RA itself. I've expanded my comment above to point this out.

[parthopdas]

makes sense, i'll pass them over as and when i can prove they belong to the rust toolchain.

[Tastaturtaste]

@Tastaturtaste this extension surfaces the rust language server in VS 2022 i.e. the rust-analyzer.exe binary. it is very much the rust-analyzer and therefore rust language team's work. very small part is my own work.

so while not affiliated with the vscode version, it is parallel to the vscode version.

i have changed the name to rust-analyzer.vs and will be adding a VS logo into the RA logo. would that suffice?

@lnicola has basically said what I think on the topic. I would at least expect a prominent disclaimer in the Readme and on the plugins market page that this project is not affiliated with rust-lang/rust-analyzer. Even then I expect many people will get confused by the naming.

[parthopdas]

@lnicola @Tastaturtaste please check https://github.com/kitamstudios/rust-analyzer.vs - README updated.

it will also get reflected on the marketplace with the next release as the same readme is used.

[lnicola]

I would have put it like:

This extension is not affiliated with rust-lang/rust-analyzer, and just uses rust-analyzer as an LSP server, together with the installed Rust toolchain. For a list of features, please see the official site and manual. To report a bug that doesn't seem to be specific to this Visual Studio extension, head to the rust-analyzer issue tracker.

[parthopdas]

i am going to leave this line out. rest i'll i'll steal from yours.

To report a bug that doesn't seem to be specific to this Visual Studio extension, head to the rust-analyzer issue tracker.

it is not the user's job to debug who the issue belongs to. if they hit something they need to file it wherever they can - you i can then figure out who really owns the bug.

[parthopdas]

@lnicola done, please check https://github.com/kitamstudios/rust-analyzer.vs

[parthopdas]

ok thumbs up from both of you. closing it. please reactivate or file new as you encounter new issues. thank you guys!