Allen Wyma talks with Sam Van Overmeire about Write Powerful Rust Macros, a book about writing macros within your Rust apps. Manning discount code: podrustacean24

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Timestamps

• [@00:00 ] - Meet Sam Van Overmeire, developer & cloud consultant, author of Write Powerful Rust Macros


• [@09:00 ] - Why he chose to write about macros and the process of writing the book


• [@13:19 ] - Types of macros and book content


• [@19:38 ] - Macro security and more details about the book


• [@27:56 ] - Most interesting macros


• [@30:32 ] - When to write a macro and when not to


• [@36:59 ] - Manning Publishing and other Rust books


• [@41:51 ] - Closing discussion

Other links

• https://www.newline.co/fullstack-rust — one of the books with the most extensive info on macros


• Jetbrains has an interesting series of blog posts about macros, useful for beginners


• proc-macro workshop by David Tolnay, implemented in some great videos by Jon Gjengset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geovSK3wMB8

Credits

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Audio Editing: Plangora

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Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma