Experiences about Atila's Mirror?

Atila Neves atila.neves at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 15:10:55 UTC 2020


On Friday, 18 September 2020 at 15:09:54 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> Quote from 
> <https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/>:
>
> ```
> Second to none reflection.
>
> Instead of disparate ways of getting things done with 
> fragmented APIs (__traits, std.traits, custom code), I’d like 
> for there to be a library that centralizes all reflection needs 
> with a great API. I’m currently working on it.
> ```
>
> I believe <https://code.dlang.org/packages/mirror> is the work 
> he is referring to. Looking at the code, it seems something 
> that should a whole host of new coding patterns.
>
> The DUB score of the package is 2.2, so I quess Atila is not 
> the only one using it. I'd like to hear experiences of anybody 
> who is using the package. How do you use it and is it good for 
> that?

I haven't announced it yet because I don't think it's quite ready 
for consumption. Still a lot to figure out about the API and even 
functionality where CTFE is concerned. Unfortunately I haven't 
had time to finish it since I've been concentrating on template 
instantiation issues in the compiler.


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