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

[max haughton]

On Tuesday, 17 August 2021 at 13:52:19 UTC, russhy wrote:
> Is this runtime reflection?
>
> Will this depend on the GC? if so does it add pressure to the 
> GC?
>
> We already have compile time type introspection, i don't think 
> it's wise to move things to runtime, we have a poor GC adding 
> more pressure to it is just bad
>
> Compile time reflection already proved to be superior in heavy 
> workloads
>
> Never been a fan of runtime reflection in java/c#, not good 
> examples to follow
>
> Also if it uses the GC, i'm not sure "core" package is the go, 
> should be put on "std", or as a library imo

It's for introspecting over code at compile time, not at runtime. 
Stefan and I have been mulling over this for ages and I think we 
both think it can do more than reflection as currently know it at 
least. This let's you drink from the firehose, so to speak.