VS Code / JetBrains Plugin Pick2026. 06. 02. 01:29:11Mago — the Rust-powered PHP linter and formatter that sets up in 5 minutesMago (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 Pick2026. 06. 01. 01:17:02Ruby LSP — the VS Code extension that now runs a Rust engine under the hoodRuby 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 Pick2026. 05. 31. 01:21:20SweetPad — build, debug, and test iOS apps in VS CodeSweetPad (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.