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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I recently read the Xtext framework is seriously needing contributions or its future is at risk. The GitHub issue of the problem dates from March 2020, so the problem is old and I just learned about it. This is a serious problem with open source software that I’ve seen repeats and repeats.
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