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lelanthran

> I guess we can wait another 30 years and there will be a C implementation of the C++ reflection or networking?

You don't really need to wait if you're willing to use Objective C with the GnuStep framework.

You'll get reflection, and a lot of other nice addons[1].

[1] Dunno about network support; ISTR it being part of the GnuStep framework, but could be wrong.

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"Stop trying to make 'Objective C' happen"

...is what all non-Apple programmers have been begging ever since the iPhone came out.

I thought (and still think) Objective-C is quite nice. Kinda hoping my employer wants to port (wrap) it’s C++ based library to Objective-C (and Swift) in the coming year. I’d be the primary guy doing the work and I’d enjoy it :)

FWIW, I'm a non-Apple developer: never wrote a single line of code for any Apple device for production. Ported some of my libraries over to Mac OS about a decade back, but that was it.

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