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Serde code generation can be used on stable Rust, it just requires a bit of boilerplate code to setup: https://serde.rs/codegen-stable.html. Things will be much better once macros 1.1 gets stabilized.

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codegen? lol, never. It would be enough reason to forget about Rust at all.

for silent downvoter: this line "Next create a file src/serde_types.in.rs to hold all the types for which we need code generation." sounds ridiculous for web projects with hundreds of entities, needed to be transferred as json objects trough API.

For what it's worth, you only need one file to be included. Any other files will be included and translated as necessary, so the only file that needs the .in extension is the root of the serde types.

Doesn't matter. Duplication of hundreds of structs is a nightmare when you want to change some fields.

Why do you think you need duplication of hundreds of structs?

There's no real difference with what serde_codegen does, and what the compiler does for expanding macros. It's just expanding to source rather than raw AST.

The idea would be that these types would be put into a library (or just another module) that's used by the rest of the app. There wouldn't be duplication of these structures. It's not ideal, which is why we are working on stabilizing the compiler features to do away from codegen.

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