Model-Driven Engineering has witnessed a technological revolution with the advent of rich web interfaces. A part of the consequences is visible in the widespread adoption of Low-/No-code development platforms. From a software language engineering perspective, nowadays many language workbenches are web-based (or provide a web-based alternative). In this talk I will discuss recent experiences with the development and adoption of a “native” web-based language workbench called JJODEL. In particular, the advanced web interfaces disclose the support for interesting MDE-relevant features, notably flexible concrete syntaxes, language co-evolution, and collaborative development.

Antonio Cicchetti is an Associate Professor in Software Engineering at Mälardalen University, Innovation, Design, and Engineering department (IDT), in Västerås, Sweden. He is co-leader of the Automated Software language and SOftware engineering (ASSO) research group, which focuses on automating the engineering of software (programming/modelling) languages and software by applying advanced computation and data manipulation. Antonio is interested in the many issues related to industrial adoption of model-based system and software engineering paradigms, notably language engineering and adoption, automation supported by model transformations, consistency management, continuous development, etc. Moreover, Antonio is interested in the design of gamification systems and digital twins.