What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Rust for Visual Studio Code (powered by Rust Language Server/Rust Analyzer). Provides lints, code completion and navigation, formatting and more.
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#3 on Marketplace for “rust”, #275 on Open VSX.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| rust | #3of 1,127 | #275of 305↓7 7d |
| code completion | #50of 39,066 | — |
5 more searches, day-by-day history, and the extensions ranked above it. See plans | ||
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
39 releases · first published Jul 2017
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Rust (deprecated)’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.