Enter Xtext
Xtext is an Eclipse framework for implementing programming languages and DSLs. It lets you implement languages quickly, and most of all, it covers all aspects of a complete language infrastructure, starting from the parser, code generator, or interpreter, up to a complete Eclipse IDE integration with all the typical IDE features we discussed previously.
The really amazing thing about Xtext is that, to start a DSL implementation, it only needs a grammar specification similar to ANTLR. You do not have to annotate the rules with actions to build the AST, since the creation of the AST (and the Java classes to store the AST) is handled automatically by Xtext itself. Starting from this specification, Xtext will automatically generate all ...
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