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Little progress can be made without honest feedback. The MPS online documentation was migrated to a new JetBrains platform earlier this year. Along the way, the MPS team has been putting effort into making the documentation more complete and up-to-date. To move forward with the documentation, we …

If you are curious to hear some news, insights and future plans about MPS and if you have missed the interview about MPS that Federico Tomassetti has posted last week, this is a good time to check it out. The article will tell you more about the upcoming features, detail the web-based projectional e…

We have some good news for the MPS users out there today - Fabien Campagne has just sent the second volume of his MPS Workbench book to print and made it available for sale. The book continues in the good tradition set by the first volume to provide detailed reference documentation of the individual…

We would like to let you know about one additional option to learn MPS - JetBrains has started offering MPS trainings for those, who prefer intense supervised study with hands-on practical exercises. You can currently choose from an introductory MPS course and an intermediate one. These trainings a…

Thanks to Marco Lombardo, the wiki-based MPS 3.3 user guide is now also available as a polished, nicely looking, downloadable pdf document.  Compared to the previous version of the pdf guide this variant is much better formatted and structured. Marco has put effort into laying out the document nicel…

This week the MPS project has been migrated to a new forum platform. Those of you, who have been using the MPS forum in the past, have noticed that the old system has no longer been providing the comfort and ease of used that we all deserve and need. Massive spam attacks a while back had forced u…

Now with the 3.2 release of MPS approaching, we've updated the introductory materials that aim at introducing newbies to MPS. Typical readers of this blog have probably got over the beginner stage, but many of you may still benefit from some of the materials or use the pointers listed here to help y…

Cover We are glad to let you know about a new book dedicated to MPS: The MPS Language Workbench, Volume I. The first volume of the series is both a simple introduction to MPS and a thorough reference manual. Written by Fabien Campagne, a passionate user of MPS, the book explains the MPS programmi…

Listening to your numerous requests we managed to prepare an overview document describing how scopes work in MPS 3.0 and how you should use them. If scoping is something that has been puzzling you, please check out the Scope doc. Develop with pleasure! -JetBrains MPS Team…

MPS back in version 2.5 considerably improved the way projects could be built. A new build language has been created, languages can be distributed as MPS or IntelliJ IDEA plugins and you can also create standalone IDEs around your own DSLs. The build language has undergone further improvements and p…

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…

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…