New Home for Rustic

Rustic is an Emacs major mode built on top of rust-mode. I use it daily for all my Rust development work.

Current situation

Rustic was developed by @brotzeit, and I have been helping out the project by fixing bugs and adding features to it.

I was granted access to review others’ pull requests (PRs) and merge them. I occasionally review PRs for the project. Currently, I have a bunch of PRs that I authored and are pending review.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to reach @brotzeit for some time now. I hope he’s doing well. In September of last year, I sent him an email regarding commit access to the Rustic repository, but haven’t heard back.

Given the current situation, I have been maintaining my own fork of rustic for the last six months now.

Troy Hinckley reached out to me couple of days ago to ask if my fork of Rustic could become the maintained fork. He is also willing to help lighten the load. So even though I was initially hesistant, I would now like to go ahead and make it more official.

Current Status of rustic mode

My fork of Rustic mode has accumulated several changes. Here are the most important ones:

• Added support for enabling tree sitter integration with rust-mode.
• Revamped the testing infrastructure to use Cask only.
• Fixed various test failures for newer Rust and Emacs releases. Pinned the Rust version in CI for easier development and root cause analysis.
• Populated minibuffer entries for rustic-cargo-clippy, rustic-cargo-build, and rustic-cargo-test when invoked with a universal argument.
• Fixed integration with lsp-mode for buffer formatting.
• Minor cleanups: Removed Racer dependency, replaced Makefile, etc.

Future

I plan to continue maintaining Rustic mode. My main focus will be on ensuring smooth integration with Rust language analyzer and tree-sitter utilities.

Relevant links:

• Original source code: https://github.com/brotzeit/rustic
• Temporary fork (soon to be archived): https://github.com/psibi/rustic
• New home for Rustic: https://github.com/emacs-rustic/rustic