| A couple of thoughts on overall strategy [message #585981] |
Mon, 18 December 2006 19:27 |
 Markus Voelter
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Hi all,
I am currently reviewing a draft book on the Microsoft
DSL tools (written by the appropriate suspects at MS).
Reading this book made me thinking in several ways:
* first of all, if we only compare GMF to the
"frontend" of the DSL tools (and forget about
all the code gen stuff) then I think the MS tool
chain is much easier to learn and grasp than GMF.
This might be due to the really nice tool support.
* I also think that their tooling is not much
less powerful than the Eclipse GMF world, at
least wrt. to the 80% case.
* Considering that the current state is 1.0, and
considering the typically rapid pace at which the
MS folks tend to release newer versions, it is -
in my view - a question of time until they've
caught up with the Eclipse world. I also think
their meta meta model is more powerful than EMF,
and they plan do develop it even further.
* the book provides an excellent, comprehensive
and consistent approach to using the tools -
from frontend to code!
So why am I writing this?
I really think that
a) the Eclipse community needs a bit more
focus on usability and accessibility.
b) we need much more consistency
c) we need a book (no I am not voluteering to
write it :-))
As I mentioned (I think) at the Eclipse Summit, I
really think that most critical role the EMP project
has to play is to care about these three points.
I would like to initiate a discussion with all of you
on how we can move forward in this respect. I think this
is really important.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Markus
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