How to determine the rust-analyzer version used by VSCode?

Question

How can I find out which version of rust-analyzer is used by the extension with the same name in VSCode?

Answer 1

Displaying the rust-analyzer version is possible via a palette command in VSCode:

• Open command palette Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + P
• Type / select: rust-analyzer: Show RA Version

Under Linux, the extension installs the rust-analyzer binary into ${HOME}/.vscode/extensions . Therefore, the reported version by the command should be in line with the output of

${HOME}/.vscode/extensions/rust-lang.rust-analyzer-*/server/rust-analyzer --version

(unless rust-analyzer.server.path is configured manually.)