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Re:Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5 by localhost on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:17AM (#23255050)
C# Source Generators [1] will help improve things considerably re: reflection.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-g...

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Re:Support Single-File Apps in .NET 5 by randombytes6869 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @10:31AM (#23258783)
Unfortunately I have doubts. This is one of the few features copied from Java instead of the other way around. You can pre-process code in Java and generate classes at build time instead of reflecting, but I know of just a handful of libraries that leverage this.
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