[core.reflect] preview release

Stefan Koch uplink.coder at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 14 19:26:21 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 19:10:24 UTC, Gavin Ray wrote:
> On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 11:43:14 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
>> Good day to you.
>>
>> I have decided to release a preview binary for core.reflect.
>> And I am including the low-level-runtime.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> And let me know how you like it.
>
> Wow, this is great! Just ran the demo on WSL2.
>
> There are many uses for it. Off the top of my head, recently 
> Rikki wrote for me a mixin which generated a C ABI for any D 
> class. This could be used in a similar way to generate wrappers 
> very easily I imagine.
>
> It could probably be useful for IDE tooling as well.

I am happy you tried it. And yes use-cases like the one you 
describe are _exactly_ what core.reflect is meant to help with.

I am aiming for it to be intuitive enough that I won't have to 
write lots of documentation.


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