[brookman64k]

I belive there are many low hanging fruits to improve the speed. In my project the code generation took more than 3 minutes. This is rather annoying if you have just renamed a field in a single “freezed“ class. We could speed up this process by 3x by hacking together a script which greps all .dart files for the relevant annotations like “@freezed“ and then only feeds those to the build_runner via a on-the-fly-generated config file.

[TsonnReopev]

https://github.com/dart-lang/build/issues/3800 is where the "low hanging fruit search" is happening :)

[munificent]

Agreed, there is a lot of opportunity to improve build_runner. I hope now that we've freed up a lot of engineering resources from macros that we can dig into that some.