Rant after trying Rust a bit

[Enamex via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 14:21:13 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 August 2015 at 06:03:14 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
>>
>> This thread is really long so I didn't read all the posts. 
>> Sorry if this has been mentioned.
>
> Don't worry, I don't recall anybody talking about it. 
> Nevertheless, plugins aren't unique to Rust: GCC and Clang 
> allow plugins. Nevertheless, I think that the Rust C++ plugin 
> you posted was cool. Reminds me of Rcpp.

Oh, it _is_ talked about a lot. Just normally called 'syntax 
extensions' (the most used aspect of the plugin system), so it 
_is_ used. Though because it relies on compiler internals 
everything released as a plugin is only usable on Nightly.