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Re:Generics enabled by default in Go tip by erik_seaberg on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:29PM (#28261527)
When I type at a Groovy REPL, an interpreter is using reflection for nearly everything. Same goes for native code that has to use reflection via JNI entry points to call Java. It’s damn useful. At the heart of every debugger is a half-finished reflection API that deserves to be cleaned up and surfaced for language interop and novel kinds of tools.
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Re:Generics enabled by default in Go tip by pjmlp on Sunday August 22, 2021 @05:46AM (#28264145)
Have a look at D and .NET 5 for compile time reflection.

Or in Java's case annotation processors.

Yes, not everything gets exposed, but it also does the job.

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