[beached_whale]

They exist, for instance https://github.com/beached/daw_json_link , uses mappings of JSON <-> class members/construction. It handles a bunch of types out of the box and allows custom types to be mapped. Also, it integrates with some of the reflection like libraries out there now(Boost.Describe/Boost.PFR) and will be trivial to add C++26 static reflection when available.

Because the library doesn’t need to allocate unless the underlying types being parsed to do, it has been constexpr since C++17 too.

A bunch of people have used libraries that use macros for reflection like or PFR to integrate other C++ JSON Libraries too.

[bdd8f1df777b]

Without static reflection, we need to write a lot of boilerplate code, and those boilerplate is not guaranteed to stay in sync with the struct definition. That is why static reflection is sorely needed.

[beached_whale]

Even static reflection isn’t a panacea and we have it now the libraries like PFR that give us a reference and name of each member for aggregates. But this is the same problem for anything else using those types too. For non-aggregates we need reflection or some manual library.

I am not disagreeing, just more saying what we have now.