Bootstrapping Domain-Specific Meta-Languages in Language Workbenches

It is common practice to bootstrap compilers of programming languages. By using the compiled language to implement the compiler, compiler developers can code in their own high-level language and gain a large-scale test case. In this paper, we investigate bootstrapping of compiler-compilers as they occur in language workbenches. Language...

A Language Designer's Workbench: A One-Stop-Shop for Implementation and Verification of Language Designs

The realization of a language design requires multiple artifacts that redundantly encode the same information. This entails significant effort for language implementors, and often results in late detection of errors in language definitions. In this paper we present a proof-of-concept language designer's workbench that supports generation of IDEs...

Scalable Incremental Building with Dynamic Task Dependencies

Incremental build systems are essential for fast, reproducible software builds. Incremental build systems enable short feedback cycles when they capture dependencies precisely and selectively execute build tasks efficiently. A much overlooked feature of build systems is the expressiveness of the scripting language, which directly influences the...

PIE: A Domain-Specific Language for Interactive Software Development Pipelines

Context. <br/>Software development pipelines are used for automating essential parts of software engineering processes, such as build automation and continuous integration testing. In particular, interactive pipelines, which process events in a live environment such as an IDE, require timely results for low-latency feedback, and persistence to...

Constructing Hybrid Incremental Compilers for Cross-Module Extensibility with an Internal Build System

Context Compilation time is an important factor in the adaptability of a software project. Fast recompilation enables cheap experimentation with changes to a project, as those changes can be tested quickly. Separate and incremental compilation has been a topic of interest for a long time to facilitate fast recompilation. Inquiry Despite the...

Declarative Name Binding and Scope Rules

Preprint of paper published in: SLE 2012 - 5th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, 26-28 September 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7745; doi:10.1007/978-3-642-36089-3_18 In textual software languages, names are used to reference elements like variables, methods, classes, etc. Name resolution analyses these names in...

A language independent task engine for incremental name and type analysis

This paper is a pre-print of: Guido H. Wachsmuth, Gabriel D.P. Konat, Vlad A. Vergu, Danny M. Groenewegen, Eelco Visser. A Language Independent Task Engine for Incremental Name and Type Analysis. In: Martin Erwig, Richard F. Paige, Eric Van Wyk, editors, Software Language Engineering, Sixth International Conference, SLE 2013, Indianapolis, USA,...