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| Re: Can Xtext be used to create general-purpose programming languages? [message #1807178 is a reply to message #1807155] |
Fri, 24 May 2019 03:33  |
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Hi
Most definitely YES. OCL is one example, QVTr another.
The difficulty entirely depends on the language. If you have a friendly/flexible language, you may be able to exploit Xbase and find it fairly easy. Or you may have an awkward/standardized language where you must faithfully accommodate every poor design decision, which of course requires substantially more ingenuity, study and effort.
Ultimately the editor is just the start of the story. Really good language support should have high quality completion assist, refactoring and of course building, code generation and debugging. Xtext provides assistance in these areas but there is no substitute for many hours of effort from skilled programmers.
Regards
Ed Willink
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