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Genco

A whitespace-aware quasiquoter for beautiful code generation.

From udoprog·Updated June 20, 2026·View on GitHub·

[](https://github.com/udoprog/genco) [](https://crates.io/crates/genco) [](https://docs.rs/genco) [](https://github.com/udoprog/genco/actions?query=branch%3Amain) The project is written primarily in Rust, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2017. Key topics include: code-generation, proc-macro, quasiquoter, rust.

Latest release: 0.19.0
October 21, 2025View Changelog →

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A whitespace-aware quasiquoter for beautiful code generation.

Central to genco are the quote! and quote_in! procedural macros which
ease the construction of token streams.

This project solves the following language-specific concerns:

  • Imports — Generates and groups import statements as they are used.
    So you only import what you use, with no redundancy. We also do our best
    to solve namespace conflicts.

  • String Quoting — genco knows how to quote strings. And can even
    interpolate values into the quoted string if it's supported by the
    language.

  • Structural Indentation — The quoter relies on intuitive
    whitespace detection to structurally sort out spacings and indentation.
    Allowing genco to generate beautiful readable code with minimal effort.
    This is also a requirement for generating correctly behaving code in
    languages like Python where indentation is meaningful.

  • Language Customization — Building support for new languages is a
    piece of cake with the help of the impl_lang! macro.

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To support line changes during whitespace detection, we depend on span
information which was made available in Rust 1.88. Before that, we rely on
a nightly proc_macro_span feature to work.

Prior to this version of Rust if you want fully functional whitespace
detection you must build and run projects using genco with a nightly
compiler. This is important for whitespace-sensitive languages like python.

You can try the difference between:

bash
cargo run --example rust

And:

bash
cargo +nightly run --example rust
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Supported Languages

The following are languages which have built-in support in genco.

<small>Is your favorite language missing? <b>Open an issue!</b></small>

You can run one of the examples by:

bash
cargo +nightly run --example rust
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Rust Example

The following is a simple program producing Rust code to stdout with custom
configuration:

rust
use genco::prelude::*; let hash_map = rust::import("std::collections", "HashMap"); let tokens: rust::Tokens = quote! { fn main() { let mut m = $hash_map::new(); m.insert(1u32, 2u32); } }; println!("{}", tokens.to_file_string()?);

This would produce:

rust
use std::collections::HashMap; fn main() { let mut m = HashMap::new(); m.insert(1u32, 2u32); }
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Contributors

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