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22 November 2025

  • curprev 17:2217:22, 22 November 2025 PC talk contribs 8,569 bytes +8,569 Created page with "500px There’s a moment every Rust developer goes through: you write the same boilerplate struct implementations for the tenth time and think, “There must be a better way.” That’s where macros come in — Rust’s answer to code generation. But unlike C++ templates or Python metaclasses, Rust’s macros are safe, structured, and visible.
And that’s not an accident. It’s one of the most carefully engineered p..."