Write Powerful Rust Macros with Sam Van Overmeire

Allen Wyma talks with Sam Van Overmeire (medium.com/@sam.van.overmeire) about Write Powerful Rust Macros (manning.com/books/write-powerful-rust-macros), a book about writing macros within your Rust apps. Manning discount code: podrustacean24

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Timestamps

• [@00:00] - Meet Sam Van Overmeire, developer & cloud consultant, author of Write Powerful Rust Macros

• [@09:00] - Why he chose to write about macros and the process of writing the book

• [@13:19] - Types of macros and book content

• [@19:38] - Macro security and more details about the book

• [@27:56] - Most interesting macros

• [@30:32] - When to write a macro and when not to

• [@36:59] - Manning Publishing and other Rust books

• [@41:51] - Closing discussion

Other links

• newline.co/fullstack-rust — one of the books with the most extensive info on macros

• Jetbrains has an interesting series of blog posts about macros, useful for beginners (blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2022/03/18/procedural-…)

• proc-macro workshop by David Tolnay (github.com/dtolnay/proc-macro-workshop), implemented in some great videos by Jon Gjengset: youtube.com/watch?v=geovSK3wMB8

Credits

Intro Theme: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset (twitter.com/jonhoo)

Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)