There is also this: <https://github.com/lightningk...

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[orangy]

There is also this: https://github.com/lightningkite/mirror-kotlin (I didn’t try either, so I don’t know if they are essentially the same thing or not)

[orangy]

They seem to have it in #mirror

[Marc Knaup]

Interesting library and approach. It does do something completely different though.
- It's for runtime, I need the info at build time (annotation processing)
- It uses annotation processing on its own - I just want the @Metadata info in a consumer-friendly way
- You have to specify the types for which you need a mirror in advance which seems like quite some overhead
- You need a plugin
- It's for kotlinx serialization as far I can see?

[orangy]

It’s multiplatform, that’s why I think it has to be a plugin.

[Marc Knaup]

Maybe, I haven't ventured into that path yet 😄

[orangy]

@josephivie

[josephivie]

@orangy That's correct, it's for multiplatform. It's built to be a semi-permanent replacement to the unimplemented Kotlin reflection, and is specifically focused on runtime usage.