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		germandiago on July 2, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reflection for C++26 I suggest you to take a look at Boost.Describe. I have a scripting layer in a game that needs to set properties in a C++ Model. I used a single Boost.Describe macro per struct and a generic get/set property. It worked very well and made me get rid of a lot of boilerplate. https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/describe/doc/htm...

beached_whale on July 2, 2024 | [–]

Boost.PFR is really neat and doesn’t need manual mapping for aggregate types

germandiago on July 2, 2024 | | [–]

What I needed is accessing thosr by name. So PFR won't do.

beached_whale on July 3, 2024 | | | [–]

Should be able to build that on if it isnt there. But at runtime the type would need to be a sum type like variant.

throwway120385 on July 2, 2024 | [–]

Yeah, that looks like it would do what I need.

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