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What's your preferred code generation tool in 2024? (self.programming)
submitted 8 months ago by Cyno to c/programming
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To clarify, I mean writing scripts that generate or modify classes for you instead of manually writing them every time, for example if you want to replace reflection with a ton of verbose repetitive code for performance reasons I guess?

My only experience with this is just plain old manual txt generation with something like python, and maintaining legacy t4/tt VS files but those are kind of a nightmare.

What's a good modern way of accomplishing this, have there been any improvements in this area?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

If you're writing C#, you could take a look into Source Generators. They're supported directly by Roslyn I believe, and are pure C# instead of t4's syntax. They're often used with attributes to augment types, but I believe they can be used to generate sources on their own, and even read from a config file if you want to (or maybe even query the DB, if that's something you want to do at build time for some reason, though I've never tried this).