Reflection API for Modern C++ - Matus Chochlik - C++ on Sea 2022

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Reflection API for Modern C++ - Matus Chochlik - C++ on Sea 2022
Slides: github.com/philsquared/cppons...
Compile-time reflection is one of the major missing features in standard C++. This talk will give a short introduction to reflection, discuss considerations for reflection API design, basic operations and composable algorithms, provide multiple smaller examples and show some real life use-cases.
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Matus Chochlik
I'm a full-stack software engineer and solutions architect with a past career in academia. Working mostly with C++ and Python, in the field of medical devices, industrial monitoring and security systems. I contributed to the early design papers for C++ reflection.
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[@Roibarkan]

33:42 this functional style composition using placeholders is really cool. It’s so similar in nature to std::bind() which isn’t so popular compared to lambdas. Do you think std::bind should/could be updated to allow the composition style you suggest? If I write my own reflection-related function or algorithm (using your library) should I also write placeholder overloads for it to ease composition? Is it hard to write if my function accepts multiple arguments?

[@Alex-fr2td]

can't wait till C++ 26. this has been a long time coming. the next standard's release date should just be whenever reflection is ready, it's too important

[@cpponsea]

Thank you for taking the time to post your comments.

[@matuschochlik8243]

Slightly updated slides: matus-chochlik.github.io/mirror/latex/cpponsea.pdf