Code generator plugins/extensions

jamiebrynes7 / spatialos-sdk-rs

Rust integration of the SpatialOS C API bindings

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Code generator plugins/extensions #117

Open jamiebrynes7 opened 5 years ago

jamiebrynes7 commented 5 years ago

As part of https://github.com/jamiebrynes7/spatialos-sdk-rs/issues/107, the idea of code generator plugins was brought up. This issue should track this particular use case and possible solutions.

Plugins using WASM, or some dynamically loaded library
Shipping codegen as a library and have users write a build.rs to configure the plugins.

randomPoison commented 5 years ago

The idea of using WASM as a way of providing compile-time extensions has been coming up elsewhere in the Rust community, too. We should check out watt and see if we ~steal ideas from it~ use it as inspiration :grin:

jamiebrynes7 commented 5 years ago

We should check out watt and see if we steal ideas from it use it as inspiration 😁

That project is exactly what prompted the thought to use WASM for plugins 😉