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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Freemarker
Hi Sebastian

You asked...

The decision to leverage JDT tooling was pragmatic but it's really slow. When you type something you have to wait for the underlying Java to get created, built, messages to appear and relayed.

If anything goes wrong you have the problems that the net effect is a cascade of JDT and Xtend idiosyncracies.

Refactoring just doesn't work.

Debugging is unpleasant because you get to see large numbers of synthetic variables in the Variables View.

Got to line can fail since some Java problems do not appear in the Xtend so you cannot got to the relevant line to fix them. You have to manually open the Java file, locate the context of the error and manually navigate back to the corresponding point in Xtend.

Personally I really dislike the syntax incompatibilities with Java although I could live with, perhaps even like, the extra type inference. Migrating to Xtend took much longer than I expected because of stupid things like changing casts to "as". Subsequently I have had to reverse the same changes in order to regain control. My current practice is to minimise my Xtend usage and avoid as many non-Java syntaxes as possible.

I find the flattening of getXX() as xx very dangerous since you get new occlusion hazards with respect to function parameters.

But ''' and guilemets are great.

    Regards

        Ed Willink

On 22/10/2013 15:35, Sebastian Zarnekow wrote:
Hi Ed,

Just because I'm curious:

>> 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.

Why do you find that helpful?

Regards,
Sebastian

On 22.10.2013, at 16:23, Ed Willink wrote:

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.

From: Henrik Rentz-Reichert <hrr@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, 22 October, 2013 2:43 AM
To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Freemarker

Doug,

have you considered using Xtend?

-Henrik
Am 21.10.2013 21:47, schrieb Doug Schaefer:
Has anyone tried to get Freemarker into Orbit? Or is there a better template engine that people are using. CDT has it's own but I'd like to use something more standard (and better).

Thanks,
Doug.



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