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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Modern .NET is reducing dependence on reflection. System.Text.JSON and other core libraries have leveraged source generation to produce AOT + trim friendly, reflection free code. But yeah, it's not a taboo like say dynamic, it's perfectly normal to use reflection in idiomatic C# code.