[Communitivity]

Bjarne Stroustrup said "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off". The same is true of Rust macros. When you need them they're awesome, but you should almost never need them - add a new macro as a very last resort.

[galangalalgol]

I agree with this, mostly because all the macros I would use are mostly written already. If const generic expressions arrive, a lot of those could go away too. In languages like lisp or zig where metaprogramming is a central feature, what do they do differently to make it better? Would those things have worked for rust?

[jacquesm]

That's a hilarious quote. Thank you.

[tcfhgj]

> The same is true of Rust macros.

can't follow