I wrote a tiny source generator to reliably get a build timestamp, without breaking deterministic builds!

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  • BuildTimestampGenerator

    A small .NET source generator that creates a class to describe when your project was built.

    • Check it out and let me know what you think: https://github.com/cmdwtf/BuildTimestampGenerator

  • BadScript

    Discontinued Interpreted Programming Language written in pure C#

    • The current code is quite messy and requires the use of the System.Version class(which has some limitations) but if you are interested I'll put the link to the code here: https://github.com/ByteChkR/BadScript/blob/master/src/BadScript/Interfaces/Versioning/VersionExtensions.cs

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  • sourcelink

    Source Link enables a great source debugging experience for your users, by adding source control metadata to your built assets

    • The tooling isn't quite there yet, but between SourceLink and EmbedUntrackedSources, it should be completely reasonable to be able to maintain trust (and eventually, easy, exact reproducibility) for projects that use source generation. Plus, AFAIK, for a package to truly be considered deterministic, all of the sources used for the build either must be tracked by source control, or embedded with the aforementioned flag.

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