eugenschindler If you try to connect using the Cloud tool window of Modelix to a model repository that is served through a web server that has a custom SSL certifcate (something that would be typical to a company-internal webserver), then (at least at the moment of this writing), you will get an exception from the Modelix … Read more
Finally, I have finished editing the whitepaper on various debugging techniques in JetBrains MPS. Thanks go out to Sergej Koščejev for contributing to this whitepaper. You should also check out his complementary post at specificlanguages.com.
A brief update on how the artifacts of mbeddr, mbeddr.platform, and IETS3 have been changed (for the people that have to deal with older MPS models made using one of the mentioned extension packages): up until MPS 2019.2, it was possible to download all artifacts from build.mbeddr.com. Today, I was trying to do this as … Read more
Let me tell you about something awesome that I have been working on with Mike Vlassiev from the JetBrains people (or rather, they have been working on it and I have done testing and provided feedback): the MPS Extensions (https://github.com/JetBrains/MPS-extensions) are now automatically made available on the JetBrains marketplace on every new MPS and MPS … Read more
The com.dslfoundry.plaintextgen extension (https://jetbrains.github.io/MPS-extensions/extensions/plaintext-gen/) for JetBrains MPS (https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/) enables a language designer to write model-to-text generation templates in pretty much the same way one writes model-to-model transformations in MPS. This is very useful for many reasons, the most prominent two of which are in my opinion: you don’t have or don’t want to build a … Read more
Often times, when creating a new language, I skip the “Create Sandbox Solution” checkbox. Recently, I have learned that the sandboxes are actually not just solutions with the name sandbox. Because of their property of actually residing in the language folder itself, many MPS Extensions are actually using sandboxes to package example models with a … Read more
MPS comes with pretty good default settings, but there are some settings that I really like to change as soon as I have a fresh MPS IDE in front of my nose. Below is a description of such settings. Hide empty aspect tabs By default, MPS always shows all tabs for all aspects (also aspects … Read more
Today, I released a first version of my slides explaining JetBrains MPS generators, including useful generator patterns: https://github.com/eugenschindler/mps-teaching/blob/master/JetBrains-MPS-generators.pdf Use it to your advantage!
The mps-plaintextgen plugin has been upgraded with new functionality for fine-grained control of whitespaces. Such functionality is very useful for languages that are fiddly with whitespace such as reStructuredText or where you just want to have very fine control (such as in JSON or in some instances Python). Plaintextflow is part of the plaintextgen plugin, … Read more
For many purposes of end-users and language engineers , the standard MPS mechanism with tooltips and Event Log is sufficient: However, in some cases more information is needed. This is where the MPS log files come into play. There are two ways to reach this log: You can use Help –> Show Log in Explorer … Read more