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by jitl 2128 days ago
I love this. I tried to do something similar in Go, because it was in use on my team at Airbnb, and we were looking to port a 2000 line make-and-bash tool to... something not make-and-bash. But as you know, Go doesn’t have macros - so I spent all this effort trying to build a @decorator comment macro system in my personal time (abandoned). Rust seems like a perfect fit for this! We did have a teammate pitching rust, but no one wanted to learn it.

Anyways, congrats on the release. It looks fabulous. Safely splicing shell command snippets together is surprisingly annoying, so it’s really cool to see a hygienic yet user-friendly approach.