mjul · HackerTrans

Pavel Hruby’s book, Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006) is to my knowledge the best book on this topic. It’s a pattern book so the format is a bit dry but the contents are great. I keep coming back to it and have implemented it several times over the years.

mjul

2 年前議論

Have a look at remacs (an experimental Rust port of emacs, now discontinued) [1] and its successor, emacs-ng (also in Rust) [2]

I haven’t followed closely, but I am sure there are som valuable lessons learned there that would answer your question.

[1] https://github.com/remacs/remacs

[2] https://emacs-ng.github.io/emacs-ng/

mjul

2 年前議論

The original Intentional Programming in the mid-nineties was a much broader vision than Language Workbenches, more like a grand unified theory of software development and related tools such as IDEs, languages, compilers, and a marketplace of components in that space.

My understanding, from the demos they were giving around 15 years ago, is that the Intentional company ended up focusing on a smaller feature set similar to MPS (I don’t have personal development experience with the Intentional product, only MPS).

It would be interesting to learn more about their work and lessons learned.

mjul

2 年前議論

Charles Simonyi and his Intentional Software tried to solve this, publishing some interesting articles in the 1990es. However their technology was not broadly used and they were acquired by Microsoft.

The key ideas are called Intentional Programming and Language Workbenches.

The best accessible implementation of that is JetBrains’ MPS (it is free). It allows you to define a language and “projectional” editors together.

It is really fascinating but it suffers from a learning curve where there is no small step from what people use in their everyday common languages and IDEs to building domain-specific solutions with MPS, so adoption is low.

Markus Voelter has some highly recommendable publications and elaborate applications of MPS for domains specific languages, see http://voelter.de/

I am sure there is something great in that area but it has not found the right form and shape yet, so keep exploring.

mjul

3 年前議論

Snodgrass wrote a whole book on that topic: Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL (1999).

It is available as PDF on his publications page:

https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/publications.html

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