This project is written in rust. For any unfamiliar with how that works the following should help: To build you'll want a rust implementation for your laptop/device you are testing on. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/rust has some good guidelines for getting that sorted. but mostly boils down to install rustup from the rustup package (if you're on arch) and use: rustup default stable to get an initial toolchain, etc. Once you have that and cargo is in your path, to build and run this project use the following: To build: cargo build To run: cargo run As far as IDEs go I find Visual Studio Code works pretty well for giving errors about things you are changing and has plugins for vim mode, etc. if you are used to those keybindings. Most/all IDEs that work with language servers should do that fine though. For VS Code I use these extensions to help: rust and rust-analyzer