Roslyn Source Generators Never send a human to do a machine's job

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Explains concrete mechanics: C# 9 adds partial methods with visibility and module initializers that let Roslyn generators emit implementations at compile time; .NET 6 ships System.Text.Json source generator and logging generators to remove reflection. Shows generator anatomy (ISourceGenerator, Initialize/Execute or Incremental generators in Roslyn 4.0), testing with Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Testing, packaging to NuGet (analyzers under analyzers/netstandard2.0), debugging tips, and a benchmark where generated enum-to-string runs ~1.6ns vs 25ns for reflection.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:43Support for Source Generators
3. 5:47Module Initializers
4. 7:15The Laws of Source Generation with Rustling
5. 11:19Vlogging
6. 19:34Syntax Receiver
7. 24:24Testing
8. 31:54Syntax Visualizer
9. 33:54Debugging
10. 34:41Define a Launch Profile
11. 40:09Versioning
12. 45:33Syntax Provider
13. 46:46Incremental Source Generators
14. 55:10Are There any Reasons Not To Always Use the Incremental Generator

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