serde_derive now ships a precompiled binary. This made a lot of people angry. The crate maintainer finally locked the issue.

  • SibboOP
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    161 year ago

    Can someone explain why one would want to precompile procedural macros? Don’t they get compiled only once anyways, when compiling a dependent crate for the first time? So compile time should be not that relevant?

    • RandoCalrandian
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      31 year ago

      One of the main reasons would be to try and hide what’s in it

      If, for example, you wanted to add tracking code into the generated code, and knew people would stop using your product if they found out

      • huntrss
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        21 year ago

        Is there anything confirmed yet? Like what is inside this precompiled binary?

        • @Anders429
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          41 year ago

          As far as I know, no one has yet been able to reproduce the binary with the source code, so I don’t think the contents of it are confirmed at all.