Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code
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- #IDE Integration
- #Rust
- #Development Tools
- Flowistry is a tool for analyzing information flow in Rust programs, helping developers understand code dependencies.
- It integrates into IDEs with a 'focus mode' that highlights relevant code while fading out unrelated sections.
- Flowistry is available as a VSCode plugin and can also be installed from source, with specific installation steps provided.
- The tool has limitations, such as not fully supporting interior mutability (e.g., Arc<Mutex<T>>) and analyzing only single functions at a time.
- Flowistry uses Rust's MIR graph for analysis but may lose some source-level information during the process.
- Installation issues, especially on NixOS or ARM targets like M1 Macs, are noted, along with potential rustup conflicts.
- The tool is an active research project, with ongoing development to improve its analysis techniques and interaction paradigms.