From IL Weaving to Source Generators

From IL Weaving to Source Generators Intermediate Language (IL) Weaving is a powerful technique that allows to greatly simplify the experience of developers using the .NET Realm SDK by hiding a fair amount of complexity from end-users. Working with a weaver, though, is tedious, error prone and the resulting code is a black box. These are some of the reasons that convinced us to migrate to Source Generators, a feature introduced in .NET 5 that allows to produce code on the fly during compilation. This talk will go through the reasons why IL Weaving was used in the first place, our long journey switching to Source Generators and why they do not yet satisfy all our needs. -About the Speaker Ferdinando Papale Ferdinando is working as a (mostly) .NET engineer on Realm, MongoDB’s object-oriented mobile database. Previously he was working as a Xamarin Developer. https://github.com/papafe https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdinandopapale/ - Links https://dotnetsheff.co.uk https://www.meetup.com/dotnetsheff/events/299150948/ https://twitter.com/dotnetsheff - The Video Recorded/Mixed by Kevin Smith (https://twitter.com/kev_bite) - dotnetsheff dotnetsheff is a monthly user group focused on software development, particularly in the .NET ecosystem. We welcome people with interests in software development of all ages and levels of experience