Is `inlining` a function essentially the same thing as writing a macro?

• pot

  1 41 6.8 Rust

  A concise, self-describing binary format written in Rust for Serde (by khonsulabs)

  

In my serialization library Pot, there is a datatype that needs to store all possible numeric variants. I wanted that datatype to implement From for all types. Rather than needing to write an impl block for each one, I wrote a macro and then called it for each type.

• bonsaidb

  25 979 7.9 Rust

  A developer-friendly document database that grows with you, written in Rust

  

In BonsaiDb, I define entire test suites as macros. This crate has a common trait that has multiple implementations in different crates. Each implementation needs to be tested thoroughly. For cargo test to be able to work in each crate independently, I needed to have the #[test]-annotated functions in the crate being built. By using a macro, I can define the functions in one location and invoke the macro in each crate to import the test suite into that crate.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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