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VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick06/02/2026, 01:29:11 AM

Mago — the Rust-powered PHP linter and formatter that sets up in 5 minutes

Mago (v1.29.0) is a single Rust binary that replaces PHP-CS-Fixer, PHPStan, and PHP_CodeSniffer for PHP projects — formatting WordPress (7M lines) in 0.43 seconds vs PHP-CS-Fixer's 25.3 seconds. The official VS Code extension `Clearlyip.mago-vscode-extension` v0.9.5 connects via a persistent LSP server rather than spawning a CLI process on each save, enabling real-time diagnostics and format-on-save. Covers 4-step setup, before/after formatting demo, and honest caveats on the unstable LSP preview, analyzer false positives, and the lack of a PHP extension ecosystem.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick06/01/2026, 01:17:02 AM

Ruby LSP — the VS Code extension that now runs a Rust engine under the hood

Ruby LSP (Shopify.ruby-lsp, 1.84M installs) replaced its entire code indexer with Rubydex — a Rust-powered static analysis engine — in v0.27.0, eliminating async race conditions and powering go-to-definition, hover docs, test discovery, and more with synchronous precision.

VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick05/31/2026, 01:21:20 AM

SweetPad — build, debug, and test iOS apps in VS Code

SweetPad (sweetpad.sweetpad, v0.1.94, MIT) wraps the full xcodebuild pipeline inside VS Code — build, debug, test, and simulator/device management for iOS/macOS/tvOS/watchOS/visionOS. Covers setup, launch.json config, hot reload via InjectionNext, the DoorDash case study (60% CI speedup), and four open issues to watch.

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