There is - 2.2 came out a week or two ago with a standalone compiler, an
ant task, and a maven plugin.

Maven plugin works great, apart from sending the generated source to
src/main/xtend-gen ( configurable ), I raised a bug and the default is now
target/generated-sources/xtend-gen which means IntelliJ just magically
picks up the generated source.

So far I quite like Xtend - generating .java source and leaving the compile
up to you actually seems quite nice in that it works out of the box with
Android, Google App Engine, OSGi etc.

Xtend to me feels much like CoffeeScript - Xtend is "just java classes"
with a very thin runtime library - it's the same type system - and the best
thing - extension methods via @Inject'ed fields is darn awesome.

-- 
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Porcupine Tree


On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Ricky Clarkson <[email protected]>wrote:

> I think you're missing xtend-lang, which also goes tools-first,
> possibly too far in that I don't think there's yet a
> publically-available command-line compiler, only an Eclipse plugin.
> Fantom?  No user-defined generic types, and then it gets itself
> associated with a guy who wants to be everyone's enemy.
>

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