venial
"A very small syn" (by PoignardAzur)
watt
Runtime for executing procedural macros as WebAssembly (by dtolnay)
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| venial | watt | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 21 | |
| 181 | 1,222 | |
| - | - | |
| 7.3 | 7.3 | |
| about 1 month ago | 13 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
venial
Posts with mentions or reviews of venial.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-13.
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Improving build times for derive macros by 3x or more
How myn compares to https://github.com/PoignardAzur/venial?
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Yet another command line argument parser: bpaf 0.5.5
venial is supposed to be a lighter weight alternative to syn that might work. Besides level of maturity, the biggest risk is slowing things down for people already using syn but I think there was a claim that it wasn't noticeable.
- venial 0.4 - A lightweight alternative to syn
- venial 0.2 - A lightweight alternative to syn
- venial 0.1 - A lightweight alternative to syn
watt
Posts with mentions or reviews of watt.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-19.
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Rust devs push back as Serde project ships precompiled binaries
The precompiled binary is not a sandboxed WASM binary. Despite the name "watt" it has nothing to do with https://github.com/dtolnay/watt . You can look at the actual code to see for yourself.
- Arbitrary code execution during compilation – rust
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syn v2.0.0 released
* Related: watt is one approach to pre-compile proc-macro crates using WASM.
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My first year with Rust: The good, the bad, the ugly
In addition to thiserror and anyhow, our resident superhuman Rust-improving Robot, dtolnay, also developed an experiment in distributing precompiled proc macros as WebAssembly named Watt and, though I never bothered to create a Zulip account so I don't know what was said, I'm told there has been discussion around the idea of implementing something in that vein.
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Rust is coming to the Linux kernel
I think when we have Cranelift, Mold, and maybe Watt all working together then compile times will basically be a non-issue. It'll be a few years though.
- watt: Runtime for executing (Rust) procedural macros as WebAssembly
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Security advisory: malicious crate rustdecimal | Rust Blog
Check out https://github.com/dtolnay/watt - it's a really interesting solution to the problem!
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Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit
I really like the idea of Watt: https://github.com/dtolnay/watt Run macros in a wasm sandbox so they can't touch anything you don't explicitly allow.
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NPM malware and what it could imply for Cargo
I really wish there was more interest in getting something like Watt upstreamed.
- Things I hate about Rust, redux
What are some alternatives?
When comparing venial and watt you can also consider the following projects:
darling - A Rust proc-macro attribute parser
godot-wasm-engine
nanoserde - Serialisation library with zero dependencies
cargo2nix - Granular builds of Rust projects for Nix
bpaf - Command line parser with applicative interface
kani - Kani Rust Verifier
rustc-dev-guide - A guide to how rustc works and how to contribute to it.
cargo-deny - ❌ Cargo plugin for linting your dependencies 🦀
argparse-rosetta-rs - Comparing argparse APIs
cap-std - Capability-oriented version of the Rust standard library
validator - Simple validation for Rust structs
awesome-wasm-runtimes - A list of webassemby runtimes