News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby. Parent comment

Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by viraptor on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:12AM (#12223724)
What do you mean by "sophisticated metaprogramming"? Rust has pretty sophisticated (sometimes I wish it was less) macro / compiler-plugin support.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by dikaiosune on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:19AM (#12223747)
Perhaps that's not the right way to phrase it. I guess I'm mostly thinking of compiler plug-ins which are very unstable right now. Which means that most users probably never write procedural macros in their own code. (I certainly don't)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby by eridius on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:31AM (#12223797)
There's also syntex (https://crates.io/crates/syntex), which basically provides compiler plugins for stable rust. It does so via code generation though.
[ Parent | on HN ]