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Xtext Tip: How to use fully qualified names in your language

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : March 18, 2022
Categories : Language engineering
Tags : Xtext tips ,Eclipse

Xtext 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:

Xtext Tip: Use Java instead of Xtend

Edmundo Lopez Bobeda, Ph.D.
Date : March 16, 2022
Categories : Language engineering
Tags : Xtext tips ,Eclipse

Xtend 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: