In a previous tip I showed how to add FQN support to your Xtext DSL. In this tip, we are going to customize our FQN to have a different separator. The full code for this example can be found here. The basic block language I am using the block language of the previous tip, but this time we are using the characters -> as separator
Continue ReadingXtext allows to easily add support for fully qualified names in your language. The full code for this example can be found here. The basic block language To illustrate this feature I will use a simple language to represent blocks. Each block has a name and can contain three members:
Continue ReadingXtend is a wonderful language. It is specially practical when traversing ASTs and it is the best option to generate code. However, it is “is no longer the Java 17 of today”, as Christian Dietrich (one of Xtext maintainers) put it in this thread. Hence, the recommended best practices for Xtend as of today are:
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In this post I explore some some common reasons that justify the effort of creating a custom low-code tool. Sell it as a service There are several low-code startups that are providing app generation services for different niches. There are offers like website generators, mobile app generators, landing pages, generators, internal app generators, and others.
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When researching low-code and MDE software, I realized that the former is marketing itself as a solution; while the latter as as a tool. Solutions are aimed at business people, who have problem to solve. Tools are marketed to engineers/developers who have a solution to build. The users of a solution, usually do not care about how it works or is implemented, as long as it solves the problem.
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