Embedding Languages without Breaking Tools

Renggli, Lukas; Gîrba, Tudor; Nierstrasz, Oscar

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-14107-2_19

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“…Our approach is also 100% compatible with all EMF-based tools (at the code level, not only at the abstract syntax level provided by Ecore), hence designing a DSL with our approach easily allows reusing the rich ecosystem of Eclipse/EMF. This issue was previously addressed in the context of the Smalltalk ecosystem [33]. Our contribution brings in a much more lightweight approach using one dedicated meta-language per language design concern, and providing the user with advanced composition mechanisms to combine the concerns in a fully automated way.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the Chasm between Executable Metamodeling and Models of Computation

Combemale

Hardebolle

Jacquet

et al. 2013

Software Language Engineering

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Abstract. The complete and executable definition of a Domain Specific Language (DSL) includes the specification of two essential facets: a model of the domain-specific concepts with actions and their semantics; and a scheduling model that orchestrates the actions of a domainspecific model. Metamodels can capture the former facet, while Models of Computation (MoCs) capture the latter facet. Unfortunately, theories and tools for metamodeling and MoCs have evolved independently, creating a cultural and technical chasm between the two communities. Consequently, there is currently no framework to explicitly model and compose both facets of a DSL. This paper introduces a new framework to combine a metamodel and a MoC in a modular fashion. This allows (i) the complete and executable definition of a DSL, (ii) the reuse of a given MoC for different domain-specific metamodels, and (iii) the use of different MoCs for a given metamodel, to account for variants of a DSL.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging the Chasm between Executable Metamodeling and Models of Computation

Combemale

Hardebolle

Jacquet

et al. 2013

Software Language Engineering

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“…Concurrent conflicting changes are handled by manual inspection through a chatting system. Helvetia 14 [40] is a PEG-based language workbench for adding DSLs to Smalltalk by source code transformation. The transformations are available to the entire language toolchain, so tools like the editor and the debugger can exploit them to accurately display the original embedded DSL source rather than just the generated host language code.…”

Section: Language Composition Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domain Globalization: Using Languages to Support Technical and Social Coordination

Deantoni

Brun²,

Caillaud

et al. 2015

Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages

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International audienceWhen a project is realized in a globalized environment, multiple stakeholders from different organizations work on the same system. Depending on the stakeholders and their organizations, various (possibly overlapping) concerns are raised in the development of the system. In this context a Domain Specific Language (DSL) supports the work of a group of stakeholders who are responsible for addressing a specific set of concerns. This chapter identifies the open challenges arising from the coordination of globalized domain-specific languages. We identify two types of coordination: technical coordination and social coordination. After presenting an overview of the current state of the art, we discuss first the open challenges arising from the composition of multiple DSLs, and then the open challenges associated to the collaboration in a globalized environment

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“…To compile new languages embedded in host languages, Helvetia [RGN10] defines transformation rules used in the compilation process. Helvetia provides tools for the host language which have explicit extension points for usage by the embedded languages.…”

Section: Tool Generators For Domain-specific Languagesmentioning

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An In-Depth Look at ALIA4J.

Bockisch¹,

Sewe²,

Yin³

et al. 2012

JOT

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New programming languages supporting advanced modularization mechanisms are often implemented as transformations to the imperative intermediate representation of an already established language. But while their core constructs largely overlap in semantics, re-using the corresponding transformations requires re-using their syntax as well; this is limiting. In the ALIA4J approach, we identified dispatching as fundamental to most modularization mechanisms and provide a meta-model of dispatching as a rich, extensible intermediate language. Based on this meta-model, one can modularly implement the semantics of dispatchingrelated constructs. From said constructs a single execution model can then be derived which facilitates interpretation, bytecode generation, and even optimized machine-code generation. We show the suitability of our approach by mapping five popular languages to this meta-model and find that most of their constructs are shared across multiple languages. We furthermore present implementations of the three different execution strategies together with a generic visual debugger available to any ALIA4J-based language implementation. Intertwined with this paper is a tutorial-style running example that illustrates our approach.

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Embedding Languages without Breaking Tools

Cited by 34 publications

References 34 publications

Bridging the Chasm between Executable Metamodeling and Models of Computation

Bridging the Chasm between Executable Metamodeling and Models of Computation

Domain Globalization: Using Languages to Support Technical and Social Coordination

An In-Depth Look at ALIA4J.

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