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Show HN: Mirror_bridge – C++ Reflection powered Python binding generation

29 points| fthiesen | 2 months ago |github.com

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sheepscreek|2 months ago

This is very cool. If it can reliably work even for the examples provided, one can wrap a lot of C++ methods comfortably and reduce a ton of friction.

Is the 2026 spec still at the draft stage?

Update: Nevermind - just read that it only works with Bloomberg’s clang fork. Hopefully it’ll land in upstream clang soon.

fthiesen|2 months ago

It is making it's way to GCC as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1ojbv1a/gcc_implementa...

It is officially part of C++26, so only a matter of time before being part of the major compilers (:

I've added a pre-built image in the github repo, feel free to try it out if you are curious and let me know if you face any issues/bugs!

psyclobe|2 months ago

But why isn't it in Rust? I thought all new code had to be written in Rust?

sheepscreek|2 months ago

Bruh...reflection. No can do in Rust.