# Trust Rust IDE

12 Hacker News commenters recommended Trust Rust IDE and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A free, retro blue-screen IDE for writing Rust, appealing for its nostalgia and novelty. Its debugger is not implemented yet, and a few modern features are missing.

## Why people recommend it

- Nostalgic retro look and feel (3 comments): "Absolutely applaud this project - it's completely tugged on the retro nostalgia strings" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047419)) "Rust deserves a blue-screen IDE from the olden days and someone had to do this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046506)) "I like it. I will posdibly use it just for the nostalgia." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073152))
- Novel idea for Rust developers (2 comments): "Rust deserves a blue-screen IDE from the olden days and someone had to do this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046506)) "unsafe-only Rust ... good idea!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050658))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Zed](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zed.md): 700 recommend
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- [Visual Studio Code](https://hackerapproved.com/p/visual-studio-code.md): 485 recommend
- [Neovim](https://hackerapproved.com/p/neovim.md): 295 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Trust Rust IDE", https://hackerapproved.com/p/trust/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).