The Future of
Sven Efftinge, Sebastian Zarnekow

first commit
May 2008
Most Innovative Eclipse Project
March 2010
Version 0.7
June, 2009
Version 1.0
June, 2010
What happened so far…

Version 2.5
December 2013
Version 2.0
June, 2011
Version 2.3 (Xbase)
June, 2012
Version 2.6
May, 2014
XtextCON
May, 2014
Version 2.7
Sep, 2014
Version 2.4
March 2013

So what’s next?

Version 2.8
Over 250 Bugfixes
1263 commits
2.443.791 lines added
2.030.058 lines removed
Total 5.747.523 Lines Of Code
27.539 occurrences of @Test
Today!

Whitespace Sensitive Languages
aka python-like languages

New Formatter API
more possibilities with

New Formatter API
more possibilities with

New Formatter API
more possibilities with

Improved Responsiveness
Interrupted Builds
UI-updates in background
stored resources
several minor improvements

Grammar Language Enhancements
Configure
Errors & warnings
Improved
Content assist

Generator Options
@Suppresswarnings on/off (Xbase)
@Generated ON/OFF (Xbase & Xtext)
HAve your own copyright headers (Xtext)

Generator Options 2: Target Java Source Level
Java 5 no changes
Java 6 @Override
Java 7 switch over strings, readable numbers
Java 8 Java Lambdas
(Xbase / Xtend)

More IDE Enhancements
Always on:
Duplicate Jvm types
Open Generated File

More IDE Enhancements

Convert to Xtend

Convert to Xtend

What else?

xtext.org

May 2015

xtextcon.org

More Future Plans

More PlatformsTell us what you think!
Online Survey
survey.xtext.org

11:15
RepreZEN DSL:
Pushing the limits of language usability with Xtext
Ted Epstein, Tatiana Fesenko
13:30
DSLs on the JVM - An Introduction to Xbase
Holger Schill
14:15
Scaling Xtext
Lieven Lemiengre, Hendrik Eeckhaut
15:00
Scoping, Linking and Indexing
Dr. Jan Koehnlein
16:15
Using Xtext to build billion transistor chips and IoT devices
Jeremy Chan
17:00
Lightning Demos with
Game Object DSL - Tony McCrary
Lightweight Diagramming - Hendrik Eeckhaut
17:40 Panel