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by beej71 224 days ago
I had to dig farther on the compile time execution stuff. It's actually pretty cool-looking. Recommend digging into it. I don't know that it's a killer enough feature to draw me away from Rust's guarantees, but it is interesting.
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jandrewrogers 224 days ago
It is difficult to overstate how useful compile-time execution is in practice. I can't imagine using a systems language without it now. The term "modern C++" largely denotes when compile-time execution was added to that language.

I would love to see Rust get compile-time execution that is as capable as Zig or C++20.

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kllrnohj 224 days ago
> I would love to see Rust get compile-time execution that is as capable as Zig or C++20.

Isn't that just macros which are way more powerful than what Zig or C++20 offer?

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nicce 224 days ago
> I would love to see Rust get compile-time execution that is as capable as Zig or C++20.

Can you give examples? Const functions are pretty capable in Rust already.

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