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Re:GCC 11.1 by jcelerier on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:54PM (#26959203)
> In my naive opinion, It seems to me that both C++ and Python have reached a point where most people are satisfied with the features the language has.

most definitely not. C++ still doesn't have reflection ffs, which I am reminded every time I have to type the name of an enum or class twice

Re:GCC 11.1 by Gibbon1 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @02:07PM (#26959352)
Idle question, if you could toss everything added to C++ in the last 20 years in return reflection would that be worth it?
Re:GCC 11.1 by jcelerier on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:28AM (#26966339)
I'm of the opinion that powerful enough reflection + metaclasses (e.g. with the ability to synthesize almost arbitrary code ) would be able to transform a lot of language features (noexcept, coroutines, ...) into library features. But it's not possible for all, and you'll pry auto, range-based for, atomics semantics, lambdas, restructuring bindings, and brace-init... from my cold dead hands
Re:GCC 11.1 by spacechild1 on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:01PM (#26960764)
Reflection is also one of the things I miss the most.