The Spoofax language workbench

Domain-specific languages offer high expressive power foa particular problem domain, abstracting over the accidental complexity associated with traditional software development. Creating a new DSL requires the construction of a parser, semantic analysis, transformations, and code generation. Adding high quality integrated development environment (IDE) support is essential for developers to be productive with domain-specific languages. In this paper we present Spoofax, a language workbench that enables efficient, agile development of textual domain-specific languages with state-of-the-art IDE support based on real-time parsing and semantic analysis of programs derived from concise, declarative specifications. Spoofax combines language processing techniques for parser generation, metaprogramming, and IDE development into a single environment used to develop languages and use generated editors at the same time. We describe idioms for the specification of language semantics based on...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: OOPSLA
• Authors: Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser
• Keywords: Code Generation, Domain-specific Languages, OOPSLA 2010, Security Privacy, Semantic Analysis