[kp995]

Can’t we rely more on Rust’s Pattern Matching and it’s strong type system?

Reflection seems more helpful when the programming language is little unsounded.

[jswrenn]

Absolutely! That's the approach that frunk [0] takes. Frunk (and other reflection libraries like it) are suitable for most use cases, and make better use of Rust's affordances.

My crate is suitable for cases where you cannot know (or control) the set of types you might need to reflect on in advance. It's primary use-cases are related to debugging.

[0]: https://docs.rs/frunk

[halfmatthalfcat]

Is Frunk Rust's Shapeless (from Scala)?

[jswrenn]

Yep!