Implementing serialisation with minmal boilerplate and template overhead using core.reflect

[12345swordy]

On Tuesday, 17 August 2021 at 18:10:48 UTC, Alexandru Ermicioi 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 August 2021 at 14:16:52 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
>> The reason that they use runtime reflection in java/c# is 
>> because of the basic principles of OOP.
>>
>> -Alex
>
> How does basic principles of oop force java implementations use 
> runtime reflection???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance_(object-oriented_programming)

You cannot obtain information such as "How many child classes 
does this class currently has", without compiling every 
code/library that you use, which isn't feasible as not every 
library share their source code.

- Alex