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…
Back in May, we announced a new open-source IDE framework for build Desktop & Cloud IDEs implemented in TypeScript. Since then, Theia has become more mature and feature rich, approaching its BETA release on December 6.
Today, I want to point you at a GitHub repository we have been contributing to for the last couple of weeks. Theia is a collaborative and open effort to build a new IDE framework in TypeScript.
The Eclipse Xtext language development framework can be used to implement domain-specific languages (DSLs) as well as fully blown programming languages. In addition to a modern compiler architecture, it comes with tool support for different platforms, like Eclipse, IntelliJ and Web.
The Eclipse Foundation has just released the Call For Papers for the upcoming EclipseCon France in lovely Toulouse. EclipseCon France is a three-day conference, starting with an unconference day and followed by two days of sessions about…
This week the LSP4J repository finally got created and filled with the initial contributions. LSP4J is a Java binding of Microsoft’s Language Server Protocol (LSP) with a Java implementation of the extended JSON RPC v2.0 the LSP is based on. The project aims at simplifying implementation…
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…
Xtext is a language development framework that is best known for the rich tool support it gives you for your programming languages. But even if you don’t need editing capabilities, Xtext has much more to offer than a simple parser generator like Antlr. In this…
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
Everybody repeats the popular quote by investor Marc Andreessen: “ Software is Eating the World”. This phrase describes how software is going everywhere these days and how it disrupts traditional businesses. Industries that seemed to be well-established and developed are…
