Sprotty is an open-source diagramming framework that is based on web technologies. I'm excited to announce that it will soon be moved to the Eclipse Foundation. This step will enable existing visualizations built on the Eclipse Platform to be migrated to cloud IDEs such as Eclipse Theia. But Sprotty is not limited to IDE integrations; [...]
Theia is an open source IDE for cloud and desktop. The project is relatively young, but currently moving forward with an astonishing speed. This post describes one of the numerous recent contributions: a more flexible window layout. Components of a Theia Window A Theia window has four areas where editors, views etc. (called widgets in [...]
Xtext 2.12 is released on May 26th. As described in its release notes, a main novelty is an API for tracing generated code. Why Tracing? Whenever you transpile code from one language to another, you need some kind of mapping that instructs the involved tools how to navigate from a piece of source code to [...]
A second milestone towards Xtext 2.11 named Beta 2 has been published today! The feature set is largely at the same state as with the Beta 1 published on October 21st. The main difference is that we spent a lot of effort in the build system for the new repository structure, allowing us to [...]
The Xtext 2.11 release has been rescheduled for January 24th 2017, as we underestimated the amount of work in front of us and overestimated the amount of time we could spend. Today's beta release is merely a sanity check to ensure that we can still build a complete SDK update site. Don't use it in production, also we [...]
In the upcoming Version 2.11, Xtext will support the Language Server Protocol defined by Visual Studio Code. This is a very important step, as the protocol is generic and is going to be supported by other editors such as Eclipse or Che as well. In this post I want to give the early adopters among [...]
Note: The ls-api library has been superseded by LSP4J. Parts of this post refer to outdated API. The Language Server Protocol (LSP) is an interface for connecting arbitrary languages to development tools (IDEs). Such a connection enables important features like validation and code completion, which have become a matter of course in today's IDEs. LSP [...]
