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by riwsky 898 days ago
“Magic” isn’t a rigorously defined term, so let’s ignore it. Support for macros is a huge philosophical difference between Rust and Go.
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I disagree in the context of error handling.

The go ecosystem frequently utilizes `go generate` to handle boilerplate code generation. That’s the exact same way `thiserror` utilizes macros to generate plain error structs. While macros can do more, in this case it’s the same.