You'll forgive me if my knowledge is a bit dated. I largely work on tools integration these days and don't do much in the way of framework development but aren'

You'll forgive me if my knowledge is a bit dated. I largely work on tools integration these days and don't do much in the way of framework development but aren't macros pretty much the defacto way of doing reflection/rtti. Actually, almost every mature framework I've worked with in the past used macros to markup class properties, register types, etc.