Call external user code during runtime

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I have an application that takes care of it's lifecycle (rendering, calls to server, etc) but I want the user to be able to add it's own code to customize how this application behaves or renders for some situations.

Coming from C#, this could be resolved using reflection, where my app tries to look for a class or method with a given attribute / name and tried to execute it, if there is none it would keep working as normal, otherwise it would execute the external user code.

So far I have not found a similar solution in Rust for the same problem. Probably this could be solved using another architecture / design that I'm not yet familiar as I'm still getting used to the language, but someone with more expertise could provide more knowledge on how to solve this?

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You are going to want to look for either dynamic loading of plugins or embedding a scripting language into your application.

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Dynamic Loading is what I have been looking for, thanks!

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