| It's a lot less ergonomic but there are source generators in C# : https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-g... That said, for more complex results, you'd typically load a serialization on start. I can see the value in this tool, but there must be a fairly limited niche which is too expensive to just have as static and run on start-up and cache, but not so large you'd prefer to just serialize, store and load. It also needs to be something that is dynamic at compile time but not at runtime. So it's very niche, but it's an interesting take on the concept, and it looks easier to use than the default source generators. |
Last time I tried them discovered source generators in the current .NET 10 SDK are broken beyond repair, because Microsoft does not support dependencies between source generators.
Want to auto-generate COM proxies or similar? Impossible because library import and export are implemented with another source generators. Want to generate something JSON serializable? Impossible because in modern .NET JSON serializer is implemented with another source generator. Generate regular expressions? Another SDK provided source generator, as long as you want good runtime performance.