Would you like to know how incremental source generation and (currently experimental) interception grant you AOT & performance "for free"?

Since their inception in .NET 5, Source Generators of the .NET Compiler Platform are becoming more and more prevalent in our projects. Especially the upgraded .NET 6 Incremental Generators have proven to be integral to a productive development workflow. Not only do they automate maintaining repetitive boilerplate code and help to avoid Reflection for faster and trim-friendlier apps, but they also replace dynamic code to enable Native AOT scenarios.

Every major version of the SDK has expanded the capabilities of Roslyn Source Generators, and .NET 8 makes no difference by adding a preview of Interceptors in C# 12 as an experimental feature. These allow you to reroute existing call sites to a specialized method at compile-time.