Anonymous User asked: I see rust people (not people on the rust lang team I think) all the time ask for you to come back, and lament that you have left the rust community, since they all really want compile time reflection. How do you feel about that?
I don't feel anything these days because I'm a professional. We laid out exactly what would be required for the work would continue, both privately and publicly: for someone to do a technical (or even just a design review) of why they think the work is not good enough, rather than lobbying underhanded attacks this way 'n' that.
Nobody has gotten back to me with those technical details. The work thusly won't continue.
In this same time period, C++ has actually moved its core compile-time reflection mechanisms and work into its Core Working Group, putting it on-track for C++26. Rust had a chance to out-do pretty much all other languages in this space (except D, but D is struggling to be fully relevant) and beat C++ to the punch.
They have, seemingly, declined to do so. But I may not know, because I am not in that community much anymore and only use Rust for private projects. 🤷♀️
