maybe next year ..
maybe next year ..
To you. Meanwhile many of us who do need it are stuck with buggy half implemented code generation tools.
But there is (almost) no use for runtime reflection when you have proper compile time features.
Of course this is something one can only find out when using a language with those features.
But now I'm curious: What do you concretely need (runtime) reflection for? Maybe it's indeed one of the very rare cases where one would really need runtime reflection.
A case of "brilliant coder wants to make game but don't know art well, so they create new complicated programming tasks instead", but, the brilliant coder part is still pretty relevant.
People often talk about Bjarne Stroustoup as if he was a BDFL, while in reality he only has one vote from those 200 plus.
Welcome to standard body processes.