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Those, who would like to put their hands on MPS and make their first steps in language design under supervision of the MPS team members, have now an opportunity to join a free workshop organized by SkillsMatter in London on September 26th 2013. Alex Shatalin and Václav Pech will guide you through t…
As we're getting very close to the final 3.0 release, the first release candidate has been prepared for you today. Thank you all for your feedback that helped us tune the features and fix the bugs in our earlier EAP releases (check out the release notes). Please, get MPS 3.0 rc1 and help us give MPS…
Debugging typically helps you gain insight in what's happening down in the code. Debugging the type-system is a special challenge, though. The MPS type-system engine performs type calculations on the type-system rules trying to match types to the language elements used in the code. You, as a languag…
Have you tried one of the most prominent features of MPS 3.0 - multiple editor projections? Developers can now switch between alternative notations and so always pick the one that fits best the task at hands. This is really an exciting addition to the MPS feature set. To help you start experimentin…
Another round of fixing and polishing to MPS 3.0 has just been finished and packaged into an EAP release. Get the most recent EAP release from the download page so you may give it a serious try. Check out the list of all fixed issues in this release. The final release is just round the corner. We a…
While playing with the 3.0 EAP releases, you may consider checking out the updated MPS generator tutorial. It has undergone a major rewrite to accommodate for all the recent changes to the MPS generator and to better serve the purpose of teaching the various code generation techniques that MPS offer…
If you like living on the edge, we've got a new EAP release ready for you to try out. In addition to the features of the previous EAP release, we've enabled automated migrations that will convert your 2.5 projects to 3.0. Get the release from the usual place and don't forget to let us know how thin…
This is exciting news for all the MPS fans out there. You can now get the EAP builds of MPS 3.0 and start playing with what we've build over the last year. It took a while, and we hope it was worth waiting for. Here's a list of the most notable additions and improvements that you could benefit from …
Today we've got another video giving you a taste of what's being prepared for the upcoming 3.0 release - multiple editor projections. This is truly unleashing the power of projectional editing. The new support for multiple projections will give the language designers the power to define alternativ…
Here's a short video showing some of the new capabilities of the MPS BaseLanguage (Java) editor coming in 3.0. Based on the feedback we received from many of our users, we put extra effort into making the editor feel like a textual one in many aspects. Namely: there are no visual placeholders for …
Are you coming to Code Generation 2013? The JetBrains MPS and YouTrack teams are sending a four member crew this year. We'll present MPS 3.0, teach the basics of projectional editing and practice language extension during the MPS hands-on session on Wednesday April 10th. On Thursday 11th during the …
Most of the readers of this blog can ride MPS already. Newcomers, however, need guidance and help to overcome the initial barrier so that they could start using the tool and benefit from it. We're constantly trying to come up with ways that would improve the initial experience and just recently we p…
