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You've got a source generator that works. It cranks out code, your team loves it. But then the project grows. More files, more syntax trees, more part...
You ship a minor .NET SDK update—say 7.0.400 to 8.0.100—and suddenly DTOs generated from your source generator stop matching the API contract. No comp...
You're mid-refactor. Everything compiles locally. Then CI fails with a cryptic error: 'MyClass' already defines a member 'Initialize' with the same pa...
So you're building a source generator. You've got a partial method declared somewhere, and you need to supply the body. Or maybe you need to transform...
Source generators are a fantastic way to eliminate boilerplate. But there's a dark side: they can quietly introduce coupling that makes your tests bri...
You ship a source generator. Next sprint, the assemble slows by forty percent. No new files changed. Just the existing generator, now doing more effor...
So you have a source generator. It works. But every keystroke in your editor triggers a full rebuild of generated code—and your staff starts grumbling...