Looks like the sede situation is being worked on

ck_, 10 months ago

My personal gut feeling: the maintainer will just shoot this attempt down and close the PR.

Happy to be proven wrong here though.

TehPers, 10 months ago

Has dtolnay shown a strong sentiment towards having it be on always? I can’t imagine there’s much reason not to make it configurable.

d_k_bo, 10 months ago

The precompiled implementation is the only supported way to use the macros that are published in serde_derive. If there is implementation work needed in some build tools to accommodate it, someone should feel free to do that work

~ dtolnay (source)

That sounds like he doesn’t like to (re-)introduce any other options.

TehPers, 10 months ago

That seems a bit concerning. At first I was under the impression the binary was compiled on the user’s machine, but once I saw that it’s distributed with serde I can see why people are upset.

d_k_bo, 10 months ago

I was under the impression the binary was compiled on the user’s machine

That’s how procedural macros used to and were intended to work.

Buttons, 10 months ago

The precompiled implementation is the only supported way to use the macros that are published in serde_derive

That statement is straight up gaslighting.

The precompiled binary is only provided for one platform; Windows, for example, does not use a precompiled binary but compiles its own from the source. How can he claim it’s the “only supported way”, when for most platforms he is doing it another way? Also, the crate, though most of its life, has been doing it another way.