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Great writeup! The defmt logging crate uses a linker script to extract debug symbols so that you get nicely formatted stack traces on embedded systems. It works on linux, macos and windows. I wonder if the same technique can be applied to this project. It needs a runner though so may not be the right approach.
https://github.com/knurling-rs/defmt
A lot of what you'd use reflection for in GC languages is done with macros/code generation at compile time in Rust. For example, rather than using reflection to map objects to something like JSON to serialize, Rust has a library called serde (https://serde.rs/) that lets you annotate structs and enums and generate conversions at compile time that you can use. I wouldn't go so far as saying that there's no possible legitimate use of reflection, but I do wonder how much could be happening in Java and C# and Go that's so dynamic that you wouldn't be able to reason about it in advance. I think most of what reflection is used for in those languages _could_ be done at compile time, but it would both require a way to express it (via macros, codegen, or something like that) and be worth the extra compile time in order to save runtime. Rust's ethos is to try to optimize as much as possible for runtime efficiency even at the expensive of compile time, and while there can be (and often are!) ways to opt out of this for a given feature, it's almost never the default.