Yes, looks really good. The basics I've read shows they understand this stuff (e.g: That you really have to view source as consisting of an AST; *NOT* as a bunch of plain text).
I really don't have the time to look at it more thoroughly until mid januari. If anyone checks this out more thoroughly, I'd be much obliged if they'd post a report of sorts here. On Dec 10, 9:51 pm, Christian Catchpole <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh - my - freekin.. And its open source. > > I used to be really against code generators - and still am for cases > where they are better solutions (ie. we use reflective beans copiers > rather than generating source to copy each property). > > But this looks like a perfect candidate for source generation. One of > the problems with using DSLs and extensions in the enterprise space is > that management don't want to risk investing in languages which they > can't readily hire for or support. But if the generated source is > good enough, you could argue that your worst case scenario is to throw > about the DSL and maintain the generated legacy. I'm not suggesting > this is a good way to go, but the argument might help you use a DSL in > a situations you might not normally be allowed. > > I also think it would be cool to target non-Java languages. > > On Dec 10, 9:11 pm, BoD <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Wow... I was very interested by this project back in 2003 when they > > released their paper about '*Language Oriented Programming' and since > > then, there were no news, so I thought it was abandoned... > > But I was wrong as they just released a product based on the research! > > > They say they've been using it internally so this is promising (I > > haven't tried it yet). > > > =>http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/?rss > > > BoD > > * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
