A while ago i was listening to ‘Kathleen Dollard on MEF and More’ on NET Rocks! and it got me thinking.

For a long time i considered code generation as a way to reduce the tedious parts of software development by spitting out considerable amounts of code and I immediately thought of tools like T4: Text Template Transformation Toolkit and GAT: Guidance Automation Toolkit.

I believe that in order to become more productive we need a solution that requires less code spitting by means of better frameworks and higher languages. Eg: C# allows us to think about computer instructions on a much higher level than assembly language.

And then i realised that the C# compiler is nothing more than a code generation tool!