Reflection for C++26

Can I ask a naive question that consists of two parts and please don't flame me? lol

  * What type of problems static reflection could solve, in general?
  * Are there specific cases and / or situations where static reflection could resolve such case, even simplify an unnecessary complexity?

> What type of problems static reflection could solve, in general?

Imagine making a plain

    struct Point { float x; float y; };

and wanting to serialize it to JSON without further ceremony

This is the thing that's driving me away from C++ very quickly. A big part of our code base is code that handles this, and it either has to be in a DSL and constantly recompiled or we have to make a bunch of boilerplate. It's a huge problem for the language not to be able to do this.

I suggest you to take a look at Boost.Describe.

I have a scripting layer in a game that needs to set properties in a C++ Model. I used a single Boost.Describe macro per struct and a generic get/set property. It worked very well and made me get rid of a lot of boilerplate.

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/describe/doc/htm...

Boost.PFR is really neat and doesn’t need manual mapping for aggregate types