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Examples

• Racket is a cross-platform language development workbench including compiler, JIT compiler, IDE and command-line tools designed to accommodate creating both domain-specific languages and completely new languages with facilities to add new notation, constrain constructs, and create IDE tools.⁵⁶⁷

• JetBrains MPS is a tool for designing domain-specific languages. It uses projectional editing which allows overcoming the limits of language parsers, and building DSL editors, such as ones with tables and diagrams. It implements language-oriented programming. MPS combines an environment for language definition, a language workbench, and an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for such languages.⁸
• Kermeta is an open-source academic language workbench. The Kermeta workbench uses three different meta-languages: one meta-language for the abstract syntax (aligned with Emof); one for the static semantics (aligned with OCL) and one for the behavioral semantics (called the Kermeta Language itself).
• Melange is a language workbench that provides a modular approach for customizing, assembling and integrating multiple domain-specific language (DSL) specifications and implementations.⁹
• Spoofax.¹⁰ is an open-source language workbench for generating parsers, type checkers, compilers, interpreters, as well as IDE plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ.¹¹ It uses SDF and a scannerless GLR parser for syntax, and formalisms derived from Stratego/XT for semantics.

• Xtext is an open-source software framework for developing programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). Unlike standard parser generators, Xtext generates not only a parser, but also a class model for the abstract syntax tree. In addition, it provides a fully featured, customizable Eclipse-based IDE.¹²

• Meeduse¹³ is an EMF-based framework that allows one to build, prove and animate executable domain-specific languages (xDSLs) using the B Method. The tool embeds ProB, and animator and model-checker of the B Method.¹⁴

See also

• Language-oriented programming
• Compiler-compiler
• Category:Language workbench

External links

• Martin Fowler, Language Workbench
• Language Workbench Challenge

References

1. Fowler, Martin. "LanguageWorkbench". Retrieved 14 April 2015. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/LanguageWorkbench.html ↩

2. Fowler, Martin (12 June 2005). "Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?". Retrieved 14 April 2015. http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html ↩

3. Fowler, Martin (12 June 2005). "Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?". Retrieved 14 April 2015. http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html ↩

4. Fowler, Martin. "LanguageWorkbench". Retrieved 14 April 2015. http://martinfowler.com/bliki/LanguageWorkbench.html ↩

5. Feltey, Daniel; Florence, Spencer P.; Knutson, Tim; St-Amour, Vincent; Culpepper, Ryan; Flatt, Matthew; Findler, Robert Bruce; Felleisen, Matthias (2016). "Languages the Racket Way" (PDF). 2016 Language Workbench Challenge (65). Retrieved 9 June 2019. http://florence.io/resources/papers/Racket_LWC_2016.pdf ↩

6. Tobin-Hochstadt, S.; St-Amour, V.; Culpepper, R.; Flatt, M.; Felleisen, M. (2011). "Languages as Libraries" (PDF). Programming Language Design and Implementation. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/pldi11-thacff.pdf ↩

7. Flatt, Matthew (2012). "Creating Languages in Racket". Communications of the ACM. Retrieved 2012-04-08. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/1/144809-creating-languages-in-racket ↩

8. "JetBrains MPS: Domain-Specific Language Creator". https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ ↩

9. "Melange". http://melange.inria.fr ↩

10. "The Spoofax Language Workbench". https://www.spoofax.dev/ ↩

11. Kats, Lennart C. L.; Visser, Eelco (2010). "The Spoofax language workbench: rules for declarative specification of languages and IDEs.". Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2010. doi:10.1145/1869459.1869497. https://lennart.cl/publications/the-spoofax-language-workbench ↩

12. "Xtext". https://eclipse.org/Xtext/ ↩

13. Idani, Akram; Ledru, Yves; Vega, German (December 2020). "Alliance of Model Driven Engineering with a proof-based Formal Approach". Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering (ISSE), NASA Journal. 6 (3): 289–307. doi:10.1007/s11334-020-00366-3. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11334-020-00366-3 ↩

14. "Meeduse". http://vasco.imag.fr/tools/meeduse/ ↩