Tracking issue for plugin stabilization (`plugin`, `plugin_registrar` features)

[aturon]

Tracks stabilization for the plugin and plugin_registrar feature gates.

[aturon]

Current status: awaiting a complete revamp of the plugin system.

cc @nrc

[jimmycuadra]

Is anyone actively working on this? Curious what the status is since using Serde without the need for code generation with syntex on stable Rust is very high on my Rust wishlist. 😃

[steveklabnik]

@nrc is

[aturon]

In particular, check out the discussion here, which points to a bunch of blog posts by @nrc amongst other things. He plans to finish the blog series and post an RFC soon.

[jimmycuadra]

Thanks Aaron—I had read a couple of the posts about the macro system but it didn't click that this was intended to replace compiler plugins for the purpose of syntax extensions. It makes sense now, and looks great. I can't wait. :}

[knight42]

Any progress now?

[SimonSapin]

Yes! The "Macros 1.1" RFC at rust-lang/rfcs#1681 was accepted. It’s implementation is tracked at #35900.