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
> > *
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