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C#•3mo ago
gwon8266

Can someone help me understand what Rosalyn API is and what is does?

I looked up Rosalyn cause I wanted to contribute to it's open source. But upon reading it's documentation from Microsoft, I was bombarded with so much information that I had to sleep for a few hours. Honestly don't think I am getting anywhere. So I need someone to break it down for me, with easy peasy examples. Thanks in advance.
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canton7
canton7•3mo ago
Roslyn is the C# compiler, which you can also use to do things like code analysis. Yes, it's huge What exactly are you trying to do with it?
gwon8266
gwon8266OP•3mo ago
I wanted to see if I could adapt to its codebase and submit a worthy PR to increase my coding knowledge.
canton7
canton7•3mo ago
I mean, any easy easy examples are necessarily only going to cover a small amount of what it can do Most of the "up for grabs" issues are around analysis warnings, so maybe start there? You'll be doing an awful lot of reading code - https://sourceroslyn.io is good
gwon8266
gwon8266OP•3mo ago
The door that only few can enter. I will try to go in and see if I am worthy enough😂
canton7
canton7•3mo ago
When I submitted a PR for roslyn, I found the issue that I wanted to fix, the spent a long time reading the code and running the relevant unit tests in the debugger until I understood enough to write the fix There wasn't any documentation or examples because this was part of the compiler internals If you're tackling something to do with analysers, then there are various guides around
gwon8266
gwon8266OP•3mo ago
That's impressive. How did you run the codebase on your machine and debug it?
canton7
canton7•3mo ago
By downloading it and opening it in vs
gwon8266
gwon8266OP•3mo ago
Okay. Is there a guide on how do it, the right way?
canton7
canton7•3mo ago
Check the readme?
canton7
canton7•3mo ago
GitHub
GitHub - dotnet/roslyn: The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Vi...
The Roslyn .NET compiler provides C# and Visual Basic languages with rich code analysis APIs. - dotnet/roslyn
gwon8266
gwon8266OP•3mo ago
Alright, wow. Okay. I will check it. Thanks man But if I might ask, do you remember what you gained from the experience?
canton7
canton7•3mo ago
It was fun? I also tend to work on greenfield projects in my professional work, so it was a chance to make sure I could understand someone else's large codebase Also some of my code gets called whenever someone concatenates two things in C#, which is kinda cool
gwon8266
gwon8266OP•3mo ago
🤌Real! Proud of you bro. Hopefully I am next
333fred
333fred•3mo ago
Also, #roslyn is a possibly relevant channel to this conversation
gwon8266
gwon8266OP•3mo ago
Okay, I will go there when I need to learn more. Thank you fred
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