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		edg5000 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML Reflection really was the missing piece, it's one of the things that are so nice in Java. Being able to serialize/deserialize a struct to JSON fully dynamically saves a lot of code.

Sharlin 3 months ago [–]

Nb. This is fully static reflection, not runtime like in Java.

pjmlp 3 months ago | [–]

You can do static reflection in Java with compiler plugins.

These are the kind of features many folks skip over, as they are niche and require a bit of boilerplate.

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