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by TrustPatches 1313 days ago
Not sure if it’s an exact parallel, but you can also embed files into rust binaries with “include_bytes!” and “include_str!”.
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It's a bit more advanced than what Rust macros provided last time I checked. You can shove whole directories in there and then traverse them or serve as static resources with pretty much one line of code.

Random blog post with a few examples:

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/how-to-use-go-embed/

You can do the same in Rust with include_dir[1]

1: https://docs.rs/include_dir/latest/include_dir/

Very cool, I guess one the the advantages of rust macros is that you could write your own to do something more advanced in theory
I've gone as far as embedding a ReactJS app inside of Go's embedFS. It's pretty damn powerful.