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JetBrains MPS 3.1 with its newly added support for diagram editors has just been released. You can now download it and start using on your projects. Diagram editors give your languages the capabilities to express ideas in a graphical way. Combined with the capability of multiple editors per conce…
As promised, since a few bugs were found in the first release candidate of MPS 3.1, we're now making public a release candidate 2, which fixes them and which brings us even closer to the final 3.1 release. Please, download MPS 3.1 rc2. If you find issues, do not hesitate to report them through ou…
One of the neat enhancements that has been implemented in MPS 3.1 is the ability of the editor to automatically re-resolve broken or out-of-scope references. Imagine, for example, that you refer to a field from a piece of BaseLanguage code, e.g. from a method body. &nbs…
Here's a useful tip for presenting with MPS - since version 3.1 MPS supports presentation mode, in which the editor occupies the whole screen real-estate. No tool-bars, no tool panels and no menus. Just code. Plus the Appearance configuration screen in Project settings allows you to pre-set a dif…
It is coming - MPS 3.1 is almost ready. Before we push the button and release a final version, we've baked a release candidate 1. Now we would like to kindly ask you, our valued users, to download and try out. If you find issues, please report them through our tracker. If you don't find any, we prom…
Did you know that MPS 3.0 introduced a Console tool window, in which you can instantly type and execute DSL code? Many of the actions that you would normally invoke by navigating through the menus or by manually opening and editing nodes can be automated through the console. We've just wrote …
Another doze of bug fixes and polished features has been packaged today into an MPS 3.1 EAP 3 release. You can get it from the download page. Please do not forget to keep us posted on any issues that you discover. Important note on automatic migrations: This release comes with three new migrations…
It took us exactly two weeks since the first EAP release of MPS 3.1 to collect feedback from our brave EAP users, fix the reported problems, add some extra polish to the new features, add introductory samples on diagramming and wrap it all into a second EAP release. Please get it from the download p…
Markus Voelter recently gave a very inspiring presentation named “The art of building tools - A language engineering perspective” at Craft Conference in Budapest. Check it out and see what Markus has to say about MPS, mbeddr and language workbenches in general. Develop with pleasure! -JetBrains MP…
Fabien Campagne, a researcher in the field of bioinformatics, a long-term DSL practitioner, an experienced MPS user and also an author of a new MPS book, sat down with Václav Pech and discussed these interesting topics. Q: Hello Fabien, it is my great pleasure to be able to ask you a few question…
The short story is that you can now put your hands on MPS 3.1. The Early Access Program has just been started. If you visit the EAP download page and grab MPS 3.1, you’ll be able to enjoy the new functionality before it gets polished and released. As for the new features, there’re a few most note…
The short story is: MPS can do physical units. Some of our fans face the challenge of designing languages that will be used in technical fields and thus should support physical units. As a proof that the MPS projectional editor as well as its type-system are up to the task, our very own fisakov…
