Theia — VS Code in the Cloud

… that supports native desktop apps through Electron, too.

VS Code is an awesome development tool. It comes with the right balance of simplicity and feature depth. The quality is really high and it performs very…

Parsing Expressions With Xtext

Parsing simple XML-like, structural languages with Xtext is a no-brainer. However, parsing nested expressions is often considered a bit more complicated. This is due to their recursive nature and also because with Xtext you have to avoid left-recursive parser rules. As the…

Xtext Core — Less is More

In this post I want to give a short update of what we’ve been doing in Xtext and what the future plans are. As you probably know, Xtext has been around for a couple of years growing into a very mature framework for implementing full blown programming languages like Xtend as well as…

Taming The Lexer

Language parsing is traditionally split into two phases: Lexing and Parsing. In this post I want to talk about how a Lexer generally works and what you can do if it doesn’t.

What A Lexer Does