The guys of DSLFoundry have brought my attention to the MPS-plaintextgen plugin recently. The plugin offers a language that models textual documents as collections of lines and words, supports layouts, alignment and indentation, and in addition to that, it comes with decent editing experience built in. The binaries of the plugin can be obtained from the JetBrains plugin repository. The language is primarily meant to be used in generators to ease transformation of complex models into text. Unlike with the TextGen aspect in MPS, the plaintextgen language allows you to leverage the model-to

JetBrains MPS is a language development tool and as such needs a common place for its users to easily share their languages. There wasn't such a place until today. The good news is that this has just changed. If you open-up the plugin manager in MPS and click Browse repositories, you'll see a list of available plugins, which you can immediately install with a single mouse click. Here's a link for you to bookmark - the JetBrains MPS repository of language plugins As you can see, we've only just started. The number of plugins will grow over time as we all contribute our languages. I'd like

We've just published the MPS plugin into the IntelliJ IDEA plugin repository. This opens another and perhaps the most convenient way to enable MPS inside IntelliJ IDEA and keep it up-to-date. All you have to do is to fire up the IDEA's Plugin Manager, click Browse Repositories, pick MPS in the Category drop-down box, select the four MPS plugins and click Install. For more details on how to use MPS inside IntelliJ IDEA, you may like to check out the particular section of the User Guide and watch our recent screen-cast. I believe you'll like this little improvement. Develop with pleasu