Bootstrapping domain-specific meta-languages in language workbenches

Konat, Gabriël D. P.; Erdweg, Sebastian; Visser, Eelco

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“…Eelco Visser led the development of three declarative meta-languages for specifying name resolution: NaBL [11], NaBL2 [19,25], and Statix [20,22,26,27]. The Spoofax language workbench [8,10,31] implements name resolution for any language whose rules are specified in one of these meta-languages. When browsing a file in the specified language, Spoofax equips each reference to a defined name with a hyperlink; clicking on the hyperlink moves the cursor directly to the referenced definition.…”

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Using Spoofax to Support Online Code Navigation

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2023

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Spoofax is a language workbench. A Spoofax language specification generally includes name resolution: the analysis of bindings between definitions and references. When browsing code in the specified language using Spoofax, the bindings appear as hyperlinks, supporting precise name-based code navigation. However, Spoofax cannot be used for browsing code in online repositories.This paper is about a toolchain that uses Spoofax to generate hyperlinked twins of code repositories. These generated artefacts support the same precise code navigation as Spoofax, and can be browsed online. The technique has been prototyped on the CBS (Component-Based Semantics) specification language developed by the PLanCompS project, but could be used on any language after specifying its name resolution in Spoofax. ACM Subject ClassificationInformation systems → Web interfaces; Software and its engineering → Integrated and visual development environments; Software and its engineering → Development frameworks and environments Keywords and phrases Spoofax language workbench, name resolution, precise code navigation Digital Object Identifier 10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.21 Category Development

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Section: :2 Using Spoofax To Support Online Code Navigationmentioning

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Using Spoofax to Support Online Code Navigation

Mosses¹

2023

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“…Spoofax supports simultaneous development of a language definition and testing the programming environment generated from that language definition. This requires complex pipelines, including bootstrapping of languages [28]. In this case study we evaluate the feasibility of implementing the Spoofax pipeline using PIE.…”

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PIE: A Domain-Specific Language for Interactive Software Development Pipelines

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Context. Software development pipelines are used for automating essential parts of software engineering processes, such as build automation and continuous integration testing. In particular, interactive pipelines, which process events in a live environment such as an IDE, require timely results for low-latency feedback, and persistence to retain low-latency feedback between restarts. Inquiry. Developing an incrementalized and persistent version of a pipeline is one way to reduce feedback latency, but requires implementation of dependency tracking, cache invalidation, and other complicated and error-prone techniques. Therefore, interactivity complicates pipeline development if timeliness and persistence become responsibilities of the pipeline programmer, rather than being supported by the underlying system. Systems for programming incremental and persistent pipelines exist, but do not focus on ease of development, requiring a high degree of boilerplate, increasing development and maintenance effort. Approach. We develop Pipelines for Interactive Environments (PIE), a Domain-Specific Language (DSL), API, and runtime for developing interactive software development pipelines, where ease of development is a focus. The PIE DSL is a statically typed and lexically scoped language. PIE programs are compiled to programs implementing the API, which the PIE runtime executes in an incremental and persistent way. Knowledge. PIE provides a straightforward programming model that enables direct and concise expression of pipelines without boilerplate, reducing the development and maintenance effort of pipelines. Compiled pipeline programs can be embedded into interactive environments such as code editors and IDEs, enabling timely feedback at a low cost. Grounding. Compared to the state of the art, PIE reduces the code required to express an interactive pipeline by a factor of 6 in a case study on syntax-aware editors. Furthermore, we evaluate PIE in two case studies of complex interactive software development scenarios, demonstrating that PIE can handle complex interactive pipelines in a straightforward and concise way. Importance. Interactive pipelines are complicated software artifacts that power many important systems such as continuous feedback cycles in IDEs and code editors, and live language development in language workbenches. New pipelines, and evolution of existing pipelines, is frequently necessary. Therefore, a system for easily developing and maintaining interactive pipelines, such as PIE, is important. ACM CCS 2012 Software and its engineering → Domain specific languages; Development frameworks and environments; Source code generation; Runtime environments;Keywords domain-specific language, pipeline, interactive software development, incremental

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Vision: the next 700 language workbenches

Barash

2021

Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering

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Bootstrapping domain-specific meta-languages in language workbenches

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Using Spoofax to Support Online Code Navigation

Using Spoofax to Support Online Code Navigation

PIE: A Domain-Specific Language for Interactive Software Development Pipelines

Vision: the next 700 language workbenches

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