Thrust, a theme for Rust.

A VSCode theme with minimal distractions and tasteful orange accents (other colors are available).

Why "a theme for Rust"? I was writing Rust at the time, and read this blog post by Raul Jordan. The theme used in his code samples had orange accents for the keywords and operators, and I thought that worked really well. The orange accents felt particularly well suited to the Rust language. I couldn't find an existing similar theme for VSCode, so I decided to make one, and this is the result.

Despite the name, the theme should work well in any language, and I've personally used it in anger for C#, TypeScript, Python, and, of course, Rust.

Theme Variants

Currently this repository generates the following theme variants:

Thrust [Orange|Red|Yellow|Green] [Dark|Stealth|Wash]

Thrust Orange Stealth Example

Code Origins

The starting point for this repo was the Pale Fire repo by Alex Kladov. I then customised it to create the workflow I wanted, and started playing with the colors.

Like Pale Fire, this repo uses the Mottle crate by Luna Razzaghipour to build the theme files.

Theme Accent Colors

In addition to Thrust Orange, I created Red, Yellow and Green versions of the theme. This was mainly to ensure the workflow I had created was sufficiently flexible, but if you like the others or want more colors, let me know.

Customizing the Theme

This repository has a Dev Container configuration, so building your own .vsix files is as simple as opening the repository in a VSCode Dev Container or GitHub Codespace then running ...

npm install

... to install the node dependencies (vsce), and ...

cargo run && npm run package

... to genrate the thrust-theme-*.vsix file.

You can then load the .vsix file into VSCode by opening the Extensions pane, clicking the ... icon in the top right, and choosing "Install from VSIX". It will prompt you to reload the window to use the new extension.

As you customize the theme you can regenerate your .vsix, reload it in VSCode, play with the results, and iterate.

Where to start editing code?

If you want to customise the theme at a high level, start with src/create_palettes.rs.

If you want to get into the weeds, look at src/imp.rs.

If you want to see where the base colors are created, look at src/colors.rs.

Useful Links

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/theme-color

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax-highlight-guide

https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/semantic-highlight-guide

Logo

The Thrust logo was generated using Midjourney.

License

GPL3, like the Pale Fire repo it is based on.