But if everyone is using it to mean something new then we need to record that.

Now think, patents are similar things but for with more money. And imagine if someone else had similar idea and made slightly similar website you go sue them coz you had the idea first.

What distribution of emacs are you using? What setup for rust? Because the run/debug things work on mine.

Yeah, doing that in build.rs seems like a reasonable solution. Since we can’t do that using proc macros.

I don’t know if language server will keep giving me errors if the files are only linked through build.rs.

Thank you. Yeah, something like this would work for me as I can add in a script and run it before compiling. But it won’t be a cross platform solution and windows/mac users are probably not going to be able to do anything. Maybe if I do the same thing but from build.rs it’ll work. I’ll try that.

That seems like a good compromise if I don’t find something better. Thank you.

I’m hoping to make it easy for people to add more functions, that’s why I want minimal code change required to add more functions.

Thank you for your detailed response.

I am ok using macros. But even proc macro only get the tokens and using in on the whole mod is unstable unless you use use it on mod sth{...} instead of code being on in a different file (sth.rs).

The plug-in system is dynamic in a sense that my plans for it are loading them through shared libraries (.dll, .so) compiled separately by users. But I also have internally provided core plugins that come with the program. But rust ABI system is not that stable, so in worst case I might have to ask users to just add plugin code to some directory and re-compile program instead of loading from shared libraries. That’s why I’m trying to make it as simple as possible. Asking users to modify the rust code somewhere else yo register the plugin might be met with resistance.

I was thinking that using build script to parse the source code and generating those codes could work, but that seemed hacky. So I was trying to see if there are better solutions, as it felt like a problem people might have come across themselves.

Thank you. I just put the call with !, I don’t necessarily want a macro solution. Any solution is acceptable, my requirement is that I can just keep adding more mods with functions in src/functions/ and not have to register each function.

Inventory seems like the solution I am looking for. Although in my case, instead of collecting different values of the same type, I want to collect different types that all have same trait. But maybe I can make a temporary struct with Box<dyn _> member to collect it if trying to collect it directly doesn’t work. I do not plan to support WASM. I am planning to make C/C++ and Python API for the libraries though, so if it has problems with them, then I might have a problem.

That seems like a wonderful function. Considering android support external mouse with cursors. I hope someone can make a FOSS version and put it in F-droid.

Please give me a couple millions.

Without open sourcing it, it would probably been hard to market it and keep improving it though. Like if Linux was not open source project it probably would have had the same fate so many other OS before it had.