Shape-Diverse DSLs: Languages without Borders (Vision Paper)Vision / New Idea
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) manifest themselves in remarkably diverse shapes, ranging from internal DSLs embedded as a mere fluent API within a programming language, to external DSLs with dedicated syntax and tool support. Although different shapes have different pros and cons, combining them for a single language is problematic: language designers usually commit to a particular shape early in the design process and it is hard to reconsider this choice later on. In this new ideas paper, we envision a language engineering approach enabling (i) language users to manipulate language constructs in the most appropriate shape according to the task at hand, and (ii) language designers to combine the strengths of different technologies for a single DSL. We report on early experiments and lessons learned building Prism, our prototype approach to this problem. We illustrate its applicability in the engineering of a simple shape-diverse DSL implemented conjointly in Rascal, EMF, and Java. We hope that our initial contribution will raise the awareness of the community regarding these notions, and that the challenges we identify encourage future research.
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15:30 - 17:30 | Grammars & Metamodelling / WorkbenchesSLE 2018 at Studio 1 Chair(s): Juan de Lara Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | ||
15:30 30mTalk | Deriving Fluent Internal Domain-Specific Languages from Grammars SLE 2018 Arvid Butting Software Engineering RWTH Aachen University, Manuela Dalibor Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Gerrit Leonhardt Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Bernhard Rumpe RWTH Aachen University, Andreas Wortmann RWTH Aachen University | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Fostering Metamodels and Grammars Within a Dedicated Environment for HPC: The NabLab Environment (Tool Demo)Tool Demo SLE 2018 Benoît Lelandais CEA/DAM/DIF, France, Marie-Pierre Oudot CEA/DAM/DIF, France, Benoit Combemale University of Rennes 1 | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Migrating Custom DSL Implementations to a Language Workbench (Tool Demo) Tool Demo SLE 2018 Jasper Denkers TU Delft, Louis van Gool Océ Technologies B.V., Eelco Visser Delft University of Technology Link to publication DOI | ||
16:40 20mTalk | Bacatá: A Language Parametric Notebook Generator (Tool Demo)Tool Demo SLE 2018 Mauricio Verano Merino Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Jurgen Vinju Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica / Technische Universiteit Eindhoven / SWAT.engineering BV, Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen | ||
17:00 20mTalk | Shape-Diverse DSLs: Languages without Borders (Vision Paper)Vision / New Idea SLE 2018 Fabien Coulon University of Toulouse / Obeo, Thomas Degueule Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Tijs van der Storm CWI & University of Groningen, Benoit Combemale University of Rennes 1 Pre-print |