alt Hacker NewsIt's a fair comparison. The parent comment isn't showing the compiler source code for the built-in reflection mechanisms.
You won't have to care about ^^ and [:X:] if you just want to consume reflection-based utils, which was the whole point of my comment.
What? No. Parent comment is comparing C++ to modern programming languages, showcasing how they provide commonly used utilities out-of-the-box instead of making every programmer re-implement them again and again and again and again and again.