In Scala one can perform reflection purely at compile-time using macros [1]. This lets you to generate code that would have required reflection in other languag

In Scala one can perform reflection purely at compile-time using macros [1]. This lets you to generate code that would have required reflection in other languages with a much better performance. For example pickling [2] library uses macros to statically generate highly efficient serialisation and deserialisation boilerplate. [1] http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html [2] http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/pickling/ http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/pickling/