IDE integration
Even once you have implemented your DSL, that is, the mechanisms to read, validate, and execute programs written in your DSL, your work cannot really be considered finished.
Nowadays, a DSL should be shipped with good IDE support: all the IDE tooling that programmers are used to could really make the adoption of your DSL successful.
If your DSL is supported by all the powerful features in an IDE such as a syntax-aware editor, immediate feedback, incremental syntax checking, suggested corrections, auto-completion, and so on, then it will be easier to learn, use, and maintain.
In the following sections we will see the most important features concerning IDE integration; in particular, we will assume Eclipse as the underlying IDE (since ...
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