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Parsing Expressions With Xtext
Parsing simple XML-like, structural languages with Xtext is a no-brainer. However, parsing nested expressions is often considered a bit more complicated. This is due to their recursive nature and also...
View ArticleHow To Eat The World With DSLs
Everybody repeats the popular quote by investor Marc Andreessen: “ Software is Eating the World”. This phrase describes how software is going everywhere these days and how it disrupts traditional...
View ArticleTutorial: Embedded Java With Xtext
Jbase is a customization of Xbase to handle pure Java expressions and to adhere to the stricter Java type system. Jbase main implementation aspects are: redefines many of the Xbase grammar rules so...
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Xtext’s New Generator
Xtext 2.9 adds support for two additional editor platforms: Web-editors and IDEA. It also adds generic build system integration for Maven and for Gradle. As a result the number of generator options has...
View ArticleXtext’s New Generator: Migration
Xtext 2.9 ships with a new generator architecture, which is described in the previous post. Even though there is no immediate urge to migrate an existing language to the new generator infrastructure,...
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Taming The Lexer
Language parsing is traditionally split into two phases: Lexing and Parsing. In this post I want to talk about how a Lexer generally works and what you can do if it doesn’t. What A Lexer Does The duty...
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How And Why Use Xtext Without The IDE
Xtext is a language development framework that is best known for the rich tool support it gives you for your programming languages. But even if you don’t need editing capabilities, Xtext has much more...
View ArticleBuilding a VS Code Extension with Xtext and the Language Server Protocol
In the upcoming Version 2.11, Xtext will support the Language Server Protocol defined by Visual Studio Code. This is a very important step, as the protocol is generic and is going to be supported by...
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Xtext Core – Less is More
In this post I want to give a short update of what we’ve been doing in Xtext and what the future plans are. As you probably know, Xtext has been around for a couple of years growing into a very mature...
View ArticleXtext 2.11 Beta 1 Is Here!
The Xtext 2.11 release has been rescheduled for January 24th 2017, as we underestimated the amount of work in front of us and overestimated the amount of time we could spend. Today’s beta release is...
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How to Embed a Monaco Editor in a Browser as a Part of My First Task at TypeFox
Hi there, this is Akos. I am the new one at TypeFox, and within this post, I would like to describe you what was my first task after joining TypeFox. Namely, how to embed the Monaco Editor in the web...
View ArticleEclipse LSP4J Is Here!
This week the LSP4J repository finally got created and filled with the initial contributions. LSP4J is a Java binding of Microsoft’s Language Server Protocol (LSP) with a Java implementation of the...
View ArticleGetting Closer to Xtext 2.11: Beta 2
A second milestone towards Xtext 2.11 named Beta 2 has been published today! The feature set is largely at the same state as with the Beta 1 published on October 21st. The main difference is that we...
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Tutorial – Building A Language Server For Your DSL
Hey there, this is Christian. VS Code‘s Language Server Protocol opens up a new horizon of programming IDE development. And there’s good news: Eclipse Xtext 2.11 will support you in building up a...
View ArticleXtext 2.11 Is Released
After more than 7 months we finally got Xtext 2.11 out the door. Thanks for your patience. But good things come to those who wait! So go and get it while it’s hot. Xtext 2.11 comes with tons of...
View ArticleTeaching the Language Server Protocol to Microsoft’s Monaco Editor
Through the past years we have been integrating all kinds of different JavaScipt code editors, like Ace, Orion or CodeMirror into custom web-based software tools. Since last June another very good...
View ArticleXtext LSP vs. Xtext Web
The Eclipse Xtext language development framework can be used to implement domain-specific languages (DSLs) as well as fully blown programming languages. In addition to a modern compiler architecture,...
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Theia – One IDE For Desktop & Cloud
Today, I want to point you at a GitHub repository we have been contributing to for the last couple of weeks. Theia is a collaborative and open effort to build a new IDE framework in TypeScript. “Yet...
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Generate Traced Code with Xtext
Xtext 2.12 is released on May 26th. As described in its release notes, a main novelty is an API for tracing generated code. Why Tracing? Whenever you transpile code from one language to another, you...
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Linking Xtext Models With EMF Models
This article shows the necessary steps to enable cross-references between Xtext models and other EMF based models. It focusses on the linking aspects, and keeps things like the synchronization,...
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