Hi Doug
Xtend is many things, and so it is easy to get misled by today's hype.
Xtend is not a Java language extension; it has many similarities but significant differences too; beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
One of Xtend's really useful features is its triple quote operator that allows you to embed a text template within Java-ish code. Within the templates you can use guilemets to have inner control, so overall Xtend supports control within text within control;
very powerful, and the whitespace tooling in the editor is good too.
For text-intensive code I can strongly recommend Xtend. However you may choose to follow my example of keeping all non-text functionality in Java base classes so that you only use Xtend as a template language and plain Java for all other things.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 22/10/2013 14:50, Doug Schaefer wrote:
Xtend is a Java language extension, no? I'm talking about a template engine that we use in the new project wizard to instantiate code templates based on various user selectable options.
I was originally thinking of Jet, but I can't seem to find it anymore. Whatever happened to it?
Doug.
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