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Since it seems like you're at FB, do you know if anyone's working on an equivalent of FB's Swift but for C++ instead of Java? If so, I'd love an email to express interest in such a thing. Thanks in advance!

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Swift uses annotations (reflection) and generates bytecode on the fly. This fits much better with modern Java development practices and tooling than source code generation. Is such a thing feasible C++, especially in an idiomatic way? Or perhaps I am misunderstanding your question.

To my knowledge, our C++ Thrift code is here: https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift

(I work on Presto and occasionally Swift at Facebook, but am not at all familiar with modern C++)

Thanks for the reply! You're right, I should have been more clear - the goal would be to autogenerate Thrift IDL at compile-time from annotations in our C++ source, to avoid having to hand write the IDL. So more in the sprit of Swift rather than a direct parallel.

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