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Re:Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code by cristicbz on Friday October 30, 2015 @11:00AM (#10478205)
> AST based, hygenic macros, instead.

Well and generics & traits. 99% of the places where C++ programmers use templates, they would use generics in Rust. `template std::vector<T>` <-> `Vec<T>` etc.

It's only the niche metaprogramming ability of C++'s templates that would be replaced with macros.

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Re:Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code by steveklabnik on Friday October 30, 2015 @11:02AM (#10478219)
Yes, thanks, that's a more complete answer.
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