Commits on Feb 18, 2021

1. A little experiment with macros instead of build scripts. …

   This commit is basically me messing around with procedural macros,
   to try them out as a potential future iteration of the UniFFI
   developer experience.
   
   As a crate author, I think it would be amazing not to have to
   worry about .udl files and build scripts and what-not, but
   instead be able to declare my API with a macro and have Rust
   just take care of the details. This commit is a tiny experiment
   in that direction, based on existing features of UniFFI.
   
   The idea is that I can wrap my Rust code in a little macro
   like this:
   
   ```
   [uniffi_macros::declare_interface]
   pub mod my_component {
     ...my rust code goes here...
   }
   ```
   
   And I can provide a corresponding `my_component.udl` file that
   declares the interface, and all the Rust scaffolding code just
   gets taken care of automagically.
   
   I still have to provide a `.udl` file, but I hope you can imagine
   one day the possibility of generating the interface definition
   directly from the Rust code that is decorated by the macro.
   Not any time soon! But one day...

   

   rfk committed Feb 18, 2021
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