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Comment by qouteall

One limitation of Rust macro is that it can only access code token, not actual type information.

When macro sees a type `X` macro can never be sure whether it's `&str` as Rust allows type alias. If `X` is not `&str` it may also be a struct that contains `&str`, still macro cannot know.

Wasm-bindgen workarounds this issue by generating "fake functions" then read and remove them in CLI:

https://wasm-bindgen.github.io/wasm-bindgen/contributing/des...

Zig comptime allows getting full type information. This is one advantage of Zig.

parent qouteall 10 months ago

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