Well, if the only thing you need from reflection is the name of a type, so then yes. But I wouldn't really call this reflection since it is very limited.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, Rust can't have proper reflection, since there's no external runtime environment that keeps track of your state. Any such smartness either has to be compiled-in (which is how std::any and macros work) or you can implement something to keep track of this state at runtime, as if you were partially building a runtime environment.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Minor point of clarification: it can't have runtime reflection, but in principle it could have compile time reflection.