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Every day we try to find new ways to improve developer experience with IntelliJ IDEA. It may be a bugfix, a performance improvement, or a new feature (usually in this order). Today we'd like to introduce a new plugin called JVM Debugger Memory View. The plugin extends the built-in debugger with c…

Here's another handy new little feature in 3.4 that we want to introduce to you - the Icon description language. This language helps describing and instantiating icons for various MPS elements: concepts, actions etc. Again, mbeddr has inspired us here, namely their iconchar language. The langage …

The new visual assistance tools that were explained in one of the previous posts are really addictive. We could not help it and, to test the feature properly, we implemented Context Assistant for the language definition languages. More concretely, the structure and the editor languages leverage the …

MPS has been searching gradually over several releases for the best way to approach explicit generation plans and cross-model generation. MPS 3.4 represents another substantial step in this direction. It brings two major enhancements: Debug information in checkpoint models Using DevKits to ass…

One of the new features in IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 is support for the new JUnit 5 testing framework.  Almost all Java developers will have used JUnit at some point, so it's pretty exciting to find the newest version has evolved with the times and provides a number of new features, some of which may be …

There are two new features in MPS 3.4 that I would like to drive your attention to today - the Context Assistant and the Context Actions Tool. Both have been inspired by the mbeddr project and both aim at making code editing easier and more intuitive, especially for novice users. Making the most rel…

One of the major enhancements that you’ll get with MPS 3.4 is the new Transformation Menu Language. This is meant as a replacement and a major improvement over the functionality of Side-transformations and Node substitutions, which have been deprecated and will be removed from MPS in one of the next…

If you’re a heavy user of Spring and IntelliJ IDEA, you'll find the IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2 update very interesting. Besides many important bugfixes, the update adds support for Spring 4.3 and Spring Security 4.0 features and cache abstraction, improves support for Spring MVC, and further tunes perform…

Please meet Hub 2.0.314! This new update brings a number of important fixes and improvements, including authentication, localization and usability problems. For more details, please check the full list of fixes in the Release notes. Download the latest version and enjoy the updates today! T…