MQ PL group visitor and seminar on the Spoofax Language Workbench

[Tony Sloane]

On Wednesday, January 14, the Programming Languages Research Group at Macquarie University will host Guido Wachsmuth from TU Delft in The Netherlands. Guido works in a group that in recent times has focused on generative methods for building programming language IDEs. While he is here Guido will give a talk on their Spoofax Language Workbench to which all are welcome (details below).

cheers,
Tony

The Spoofax Language Workbench

Guido Wachsmuth
TU Delft

10am, room E6A357

IDEs are essential for programming language developers, and state-of-the-art IDE support is mandatory for programming languages to be successful. Although IDE features for mainstream programming languages are typically implemented manually, this often isn't feasible for programming languages that must be developed with significantly fewer resources. The Spoofax language workbench is a platform for developing textual programming languages with state-of-the-art IDE support. Spoofax is a comprehensive environment that integrates syntax definition, name binding, type analysis, program transformation, code generation, and declarative specification of IDE components. It also provides high-level languages for each of these aspects. These languages are highly declarative, abstracting over the implementation of IDE features and letting engineers focus on language design.