Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:07): Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:07):Hi Roc community, I am implementing a video editor and am designing a generative plugin system.
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:08):
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:08):This has been a long time idea for me and this year I finally have the courage to do it
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:08):The editor itself is written in Rust and currently working
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:08):I want to add an AI feature on top of it.
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:09):However, instead of conventional "agentic editing"
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:09):what I want is more like a generative plugin system
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:09):Like VS Code, but users can vibe creating their own plugins, so that the UI of the editor can adapt
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:10):This is more powerful than one-shot AI editing because the generative plugin can be saved for future use so it's deterministic
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:10):JavaScript or Lua are probably the easiest language to embed, but hey, we are in late 2026
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:11):AI is already very good at writing non-popular programming languages and I feel Roc have a better abstraction for this kind of work
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:12):Therefore I wonder, is it possible to vendor the Roc compiler along with my Rust application so that the user can just vibe coding Roc
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:12):I mean, users vibe editing and generating plugins, but plugins are written in Roc under the hood, which users don't need to know.
Albert (Oct 19 2026 at 13:13):Is the Roc project mature enough for this kind of workflow?
Anton (Oct 20 2026 at 10:18):Hi @Albert,
This is a use case Roc is designed for but we don't have a guide for this yet. It should be doable with AI assistance. On maturity, there are still frequent breaking changes in Roc, we do hope to release Roc 0.1 soon.
Now, rather than embedding the compiler, I’d define your plugin API as a Roc platform whose targets use output: Shared. The host is then just a small Rust staticlib that forwards hosted functions to your editor. Your editor ships the roc binary, runs roc build plugin.roc to get a .dylib/.so/.dll, and dlopens it. See test/dylib in the roc repo and roc-platform-template-rust / basic-cli for Rust hosts, and use roc glue with RustGlue.roc for bindings. There’s no stable embeddable compiler library (libroc) yet; that’s planned for after 0.1.
Note: the first draft of this post was written by Claude Opus 5.5 (high) and reviewed and edited by me.
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