Jetbrains announce support for rust plugin, show them we want one too!

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 at 15:40:08 UTC, Ryion wrote:

> I applaud the people who contribute but reading posts here that 
> pushing people ( on a lot of topics ) to contribute does not 
> exactly motivate. It shows a rather desperation that we do not 
> see in other languages forums.
>porting /
> expanding the plugins.
>
> It feels like this approach is just wrong... When people are 
> motivated, they so so from themselves and do not need the 
> "gentle" pushing on a forum to do so.

It's not pushing, not desperation. It's just a fact of life in 
community-driven projects. And this is certainly not the only 
community I've seen it in. The fact is, the things that get 
implemented, whether they be IDE plugins, libraries, tooling, 
whatever, actually do get implemented because someone stepped up 
to do it. Sometimes things get abandoned and others step in to 
take them over, other times they rot. So it's perfectly 
reasonable advice to give someone -- if you see a hole that needs 
filling, you can either try to get someone else to fill it or do 
it yourself. There is simply no team you can go to with a feature 
request that can be put on a task list and assigned to someone 
later on down the road. Without a champion to move it forward, 
it's just going to fall into the bin of great ideas that never 
see the light of day.