In the current scheme of things, performing reflective invocations that are more or less simple in such languages/systems as Java and C# is quite convoluted.

When you want to reflectively call a method on a given object in Java, you figure out the object's class, then look up the corresponding java.lang.reflect.Method and finally simply call Method.invoke, passing the given object and the arguments.

In Scala this requires a significant amount of ceremony. First you have to obtain a runtime mirror, then you use it to reflect the object's class symbol, then you look up a method symbol in that class, then you need to obtain a method mirror using the calculated method symbol, and only then can you call apply on the resulting mirror.