Codespaces Rust Starter 2024

This project is a generic starter for developers to use in Codespaces that includes basic system tools and extensions.

What's Included

This is a basic environment that should be ready to expand upon to build a day-to-day development envrionment for Rust. It comes with the following software choices:

VS Code Extensions

• Rust Analyzer: an alternative rust language server to the RLS.
• CodeLLDB: native debugger based on LLDB.
• Live Share: collaborative, multi-user remote editing from directly within the editor.
• Even Better Toml: Support for toml.

System Tools

• rustup -installer and toolchain manager. Provides cargo including cargo fmt and cargo clippy.
• mold - the mold linker. This is not active by default. #todo.
• git - the Git SCM tool.
• vim - a text editor.
• eza - is a modern, maintained replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls.
• curl - the command line tool for transferring data over a metric boatload of protocols.
• jq - a command line JSON parser.
• sudo - the superuser authority delegation tool.
• zsh - interactive terminal (alternative to bash).
• build essentials - tools for compiling and linking code.
• gnupg2 - a complete and free implementatiuon of the OpenPGP standard.
• openssl - tls and ssl toolkit.

Shell Conveniences

• delta - delta diff viewer with colours
• ripgrep - rg is a grep replacement
• zsh-autosuggetions
• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• fzf Fuzzy finder
• tig
• liquidprompt
• screenfetch system information

Operating System

• Ubuntu 24.04: The 24.04 LTS version of Ubuntu.

Usage

Using your own Dotfiles

See Personalizing GitHub Codespaces for your account: for how to set this up with your own dotfiles.