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Building Your Own Java, Part 1
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Summary
Alex Shatalin and Václav Pech hold a hands on demonstration on using JetBrains MPS to generate a new language, including version control, debugging, testing, refactoring, etc.
Bio
Alex Shatalin is the JetBrains MPS project lead. Before JetBrains, Alex worked at Borland Together, for Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework development, and in various other MDA/DSL-based application development projects. Václav Pech works for JetBrains as a senior software developer and a technology evangelist. More at http://vaclavpech.eu
About the conference
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Sep 14, 2012
Community comments
nice idea
by will mason,
nice idea
by will mason,
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Hi -- I like the concept, we should be working with abstractions (something like a software IC, for example). Implementation I think using a syntax tree is going in the opposite direction to a finally desirable paradigm. So I expect many folk will switch off for paragraph two. For me I've written code, databases and abstract models for many years and trialled many, many IDE-s and editing tools.
In other words I have an informed viewpoint. Your code (text) representation needs to look like word-processor (errors are like a spellchecker). The abstract representation should not be a syntax tree, the abstraction needs to reside in the problem (or the solution) domain. I (think) that you can use MPS to make models of 'solution domains' and in that respect this is a great step forward (when people do that). However, what I think we get with a tool for DSL-s will be something similar to FORTH and Smalltalk wherein we actually have a tower of babel within implementation environments.
I reckon MPS is going towards the right orientation, and I'd like to suggest considering an alternative 'direction' (if you like) and reflect on open, generative systems like MUDD-s (or game like environments). And remember the 'spell checker' idea!
aloha, w.