Rust analyzer and compilation are very slow. My system is heating up, running out of ram and disk space. I have 8 GB ram.
I use helix editor.
edit: thank you for all your suggestions. I am breaking up the project into smaller crates to see if that makes a difference.
I got the biggest improvements from zram and sccache. With zram my memory usage stays at 90% instead of fully running out when rust-analyzer starts.
Are you sure? I have tried using vim and it was pretty much the same.
I have also confirmed the cause using task manager to be rust analyzer.
do you use zellij or something like that?
I don’t use zellij. Just normal tabs inside kitty terminal.
The only thing “heavy” about helix is it will download all the tree sitter grammars by default you can limit this, but it’s a disk usage thing.
https://docs.helix-editor.com/languages.html?highlight=Use-Grammars#choosing-grammars