In .NET we have plenty of ways to map objects to one another. Below is an example, courtesy of ChatGPT of using the EXPLICIT OPERATOR 👇🏻.
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How do you like to convert objects from one type to another? AutoMapper? Mapster? Plain left-right assignment perhaps using the Explicit Operator or Extension methods?
The words are often used interchangeably but note that technically ‘Explicit’ is not an operator, it’s a keyword.