// Hacker Noon · 15 April 2026

Reflection-Driven Development in Pure C: Eliminating Boilerplate at Scale

Pure C provides absolute hardware control but lacks native runtime reflection, leading to endless boilerplate for ECS, serialization, and UI bindings. This article explores "Reflection Driven Development" (RDD)—how to build a standalone, custom code generator in C using libclang. By parsing simple m...

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