SLE 2025
Thu 12 - Fri 13 June 2025 Koblenz, Germany
co-located with STAF 2025
Thu 12 Jun 2025 14:37 - 15:00 at M 001 - SLE Session 2: Language and Framework Design Chair(s): Elizabeth Scott

Many current language workbenches do not support incremental parsing or left recursion, lack support for resolving references and pretty-printing or make it difficult to implement the Language Server Protocol (LSP) based on the generated parser. In this paper, we present AnyText, a new language workbench that solves these challenges by implementing the LSP using a scannerless, incremental packrat parser with support for left recursion, based on a grammar description in an extended EBNF-like grammar similar to Xtext/Langium. Furthermore, we show how an EBNF extension with formatting instructions can be used to obtain a pretty-printer. We use a combination of an internal and an external DSL to simplify the process of creating a new language. We demonstrate our approach using two new DSLs and evaluate performance and the amount of manual code necessary to support different editor features.

Thu 12 Jun

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13:30 - 15:00
SLE Session 2: Language and Framework DesignSLE 2025 at M 001
Chair(s): Elizabeth Scott Royal Holloway University of London
13:30
22m
Talk
A Model-Driven Approach to Design, Generation, and Deployment of GUI Component Libraries
SLE 2025
Arkadii Gerasimov RWTH Aachen University, Nico Jansen Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Judith Michael University of Regensburg, Bernhard Rumpe RWTH Aachen University, Sebastian Will RWTH Aachen
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13:52
22m
Talk
TranspileJS, an Intelligent Framework for Transpiling JavaScript to WebAssemblyArtifact ReusableArtifact Available
SLE 2025
José Pedro Ferreira University of Porto, Portugal, João Bispo Faculdade de Engenharia e Universidade do Porto, Susana Lima
14:15
22m
Talk
Optimal Language Design is Hard: A Case Study in ECMAScript (JavaScript) StandardizationArtifact ReusableArtifact Available
SLE 2025
Philipp Riemer Leipzig University, Yury Nikulin University of Turku, Ashley Claymore , Mikhail Barash University of Bergen
14:37
22m
Talk
AnyText: Incremental, left-recursive Parsing and Pretty-Printing from a single Grammar Definition with first-class LSP supportArtifact ReusableArtifact Available
SLE 2025
Georg Hinkel RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany, Alexander Hert RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany, Niklas Hettler RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany, Kevin Weinert RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany