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Reflection for C++26

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196 points svlasov | 1 comments | 30 Jun 24 11:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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Dwedit ◴[01 Jul 24 22:04 UTC] No.40851285[source]▶
Compile time or runtime? Compile time reflection would be completely painless and bloat-free.
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shortrounddev2 ◴[01 Jul 24 22:08 UTC] No.40851330[source]▶
RTTI is a super vital feature for deserializing without having to generate code or write a ton of tedious boilerplate. I'd be very happy with RTTI in C++ and my life would be instantly easier if there were RTTI in typescript so I didn't have to use any of the hacky solutions out there for deserializing JSON on backends without RTTI.

I suppose C++'s template system might be able to generate JSON deserializers with static reflection as well

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1. comex ◴[01 Jul 24 22:46 UTC] No.40851644[source]▶
> I suppose C++'s template system might be able to generate JSON deserializers with static reflection as well

It definitely can, and it will be faster and more type-safe than doing it at runtime. But if you do want to do it at runtime, well, it's possible to implement runtime reflection as a library on top of compile-time reflection, so someone will probably do that.