| Hack or not, it's been working relatively well for the past decade. But even, if you account for that, the records in Java do most of what Lombok used to do - make class externally immutable, add default `toString`, `equals` and `hashCode` implementations, allow read-only access to fields. > what source generators can do in C# Having had the displeasure of developing source generators in C# (in Rider), what they do is make code impossible to debug while working on it. On top of relying on an ancient version of netstandard. I cannot emphasize enough how eldritch working on them is.
While developing, whatever change you write isn't reflected when you inspect codegen code, and caching can keep old code beyond even post re-compilation unless you restart the build server, or something. So whenever you try to debug your codegen libs, you toss a coin: - heads it shows correct code - tails it's showing previously iteration of code gen code, but the new code is in, so the debugger will at some point get confused - medusae it's showing previous iteration of code gen code, but new code hasn't been propagated, and you need to do some arcane rituals to make it work. Hell, even as a user of codegen libs, updating codegen libs caused miscompilation because it was still caching the previous codegen version. |
They require 2.0, which is the only version that is actually useful, since it supports .NET Framework 4.x.v