The .NET Pipeline That Makes Source Generators Feel Instant

Deep dive into .NET source generators, and understand how to design efficient pipelines that minimize recompilation and boost codegen performance.

Deep dive into .NET source generators, and understand how to design efficient pipelines that minimize recompilation and boost codegen performance.

In this post, I'll show you what Roslyn source generators are, why they're a massive improvement over old techniques, and how to build a simple, high-performance generator from scratch.

C# 14 ships with .NET 10 and brings a set of focused, developer‑friendly improvements: extension members, null‑conditional assignment, field‑backed properties, first‑class Span<T> conversions, and more. In this post, I’ll explain what each change does, why it matters, and show you concise examples you…