Simple declarative reflection in C++20

21 December 2022

Almost every real-world application requires a lot of similar operations such as saving its internal state, making API requests, logging events, etc. This leads to writing hundreds of lines of code to convert classes to JSON, serializing to various formats, and so on.

But if we knew the internal structure of classes, then we could write generic functions for all use cases and get the desired features quickly and easily.