{"id":20733,"date":"2019-07-01T08:59:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T12:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/evolution-c-reflection-ts\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T13:49:42","slug":"evolution-c-reflection-ts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/company\/stories\/evolution-c-reflection-ts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of C++ with the Reflection TS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bloomberg engineers are constantly looking to help the C++ programming language evolve, while also providing backwards compatibility so that applications can be more easily written in an elegant way that\u2019s simplistic, modular and concise, yet not over-engineered. At its core, C++ has some basic reflection capacity, as its code structure and behavior can be examined and modified at compile time. In other words, programmers can write powerful algorithms that operate in a generic way by inspecting types, functions, and their properties. This is frequently known as metaprogramming. Reflection is a new feature that works to fill in the gaps by fundamentally extending metaprogramming\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n

At the recent C++Now 2019 conference<\/a> held May 5-10 in Aspen, Colorado, David Sankel, Software Engineering Manager and Team Lead at Bloomberg, delivered a keynote entitled \u201cThe C++ Reflection TS.\u201d<\/a> As an active member of the C++ standardization committee, David is currently serving as project editor for the Reflection TS<\/a>, for which he is a co-author together with Mat\u00fa\u0161 Chochl\u00edk of GlobalLogic Slovakia and Axel Naumann, member of the ROOT development team at CERN.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n