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Stop Writing Boilerplate: A Guide to Go Code Generation Tools

·1313 words·7 mins
Go Basics Productivity Best Practices Code-Generation Go-Generate Tooling Performance Metaprogramming
Introduction # In the landscape of modern software development in 2025, efficiency is paramount. While Go (Golang) is celebrated for its simplicity and readability, that philosophy often comes with a trade-off: boilerplate. Whether it’s implementing String() methods for enums, creating mock interfaces for testing, or mapping database rows to structs, writing repetitive code is tedious and error-prone.

Mastering Rust Procedural Macros: Building a Custom Derive for Cleaner APIs

·1707 words·9 mins
Advanced Rust Rust Metaprogramming Macros API Design Syn Quote Developer Experience
If you have spent any significant time in the Rust ecosystem, you have undoubtedly marveled at the magic of #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] from Serde or #[derive(Parser)] from Clap. These seemingly simple annotations perform heavy lifting behind the scenes, generating hundreds of lines of boilerplate code so you don’t have to.

Stop Writing Boilerplate: The Ultimate Guide to Reusable Rust Macros

·1659 words·8 mins
Advanced Rust Systems Programming Productivity Rust Macros Metaprogramming Codegen Dry-Principle Syn Quote Best Practices
If you have been writing Rust for any significant amount of time, you have likely hit a wall of repetition. Perhaps you are manually implementing the Builder pattern for the tenth time this week, or maybe you are writing identical error-handling wrappers for different database entities.