I think there's a humour to C++ being like Python in that, left alone, the language's community will almost immediately try and stuff as much syntax as possible

I think there's a humour to C++ being like Python in that, left alone, the language's community will almost immediately try and stuff as much syntax as possible into the language. The difference is how much power the community has to turn these syntactic fever dreams a reality. With C++, you get first-class stuff like the STL and even the C preprocessor, and now reflection. With Python, it usually comes down to magic method abuse (see pathlib's use of `__div__`), maybe messing around with metaclasses, and the PEP process (though I think they're pumping the brakes at this point -- walrus was fun, but I really hope PEP 750 doesn't make it in, and it seems to me that it'll stall). You technically have `ast`, but that'll only go so far since unless you really go overboard with your hack, you still have to write valid, parseable Python before `ast` will ingest it.