MPS rocks

A curated list of awesome MPS extensions/libraries, software and resources.

Inspired by awesome-python and awesome-rust.

What Do You Want?

• Understand what MPS is
  • What is MPS and why to build your own language
• See what others have been building with MPS
  • Build with MPS are open source projects that all build on MPS
  • Research contains a list academic papers that make heavy use of MPS
• Get started with building stuff on top of MPS
  • To get stated we suggest to look at the tutorials in the following order
    • Fast track tutorial is the official tutorial for MPS. It will provide you with an high-level overview in 10 steps, covering all aspects of MPS at a high level.
    • MPS Intro Course by @markusvoelter is an advanced introduction to MPS in the form of multiple videos as well as a github repository to play around with. It also covers extensions to MPS such as additional notations or the interpreter framework.
    • Grammar Cells An extension to the editor language of MPS. It will help you to create consistent and well-behaving textual notations in MPS with no effort.
    • If you are specificly looking for input on how to build generators this guide contains a set of best practices.
    • The DSL Engineering Book contains detailed discussions of the concepts behind MPS in its Part III on language implementation.
    • For more details on specific MPS topics we refer to 2 books on MPS as well as the official MPS User Guide
  • Learning contains a list of even more tutorials
  • In addition Research contains a list academic papers that make heavy use of MPS
• Find existing extensions for MPS
  • Awesome MPS contains a collection of extensions to MPS
• Get in touch with the community
  • The Community list the usual subects

Awesome MPS

• ANTLR_MPS - An ANTLR language for MPS, and the ToMPS language to help create MPS languages and ANTRL visitors from an ANTLR 4 grammar.
• mps-code-reviewer - Code Review for JetBrains MPS providing integration with Bitbucket
• ecmascript4mps - ECMAScript language implementation for JetBrains MPS
• Editor2PDF - Serialises editor into PDF files
• ingrid - Ingrid is a plugin for JetBrains MPS allowing import of ANTLRv4 grammars and create an MPS language out of it.
• MPS Extensions - Various extensions to simplify language development.
• MPS gradle plugin - A Gradle plugin to build & test langauges and to support various tasks related to custom RCP packaging.
• PlantUML - Language for PlantUML models, also useful to generate PlantUML diagrams from custom DSL.
• Simple Generator Editors - Simplified editors to increase readability of generators.
• Text Generator Plugin - Alternative Textgen for JetBrains MPS using the standard model to model generation mechanisms.
• Nyan Progress Bar - Pretty progress bars for IJ based IDEs.
• MPS JSON Language - A JSON implementation for MPS.
• digitalember.extensions - MPS baseLanguage editor extensions for better readability.

Build with MPS

• FormatsDSL - A DSL to describe formats and generate loaders
• Hardella IDE - Smart programming environment for PLC
• iets3 - Base language for system modelling and specification including basics abstractions for components, expression, variability, etc
• mbeddr - An extensible C implementation in MPS to support embedded software development.
• MetaR - A IDE for R for people with limited computer science background.
• PeoPL - A full IDE build upon MPS to manage Software Product Lines.
• FASTEN - An IDE for system level formal specification. A stack of DSLs built on top of SMV, verified using the NuSMV model checker.

Resources

• Learning
  • Creating a simple language using JetBrains MPS - The objective of this project is to construct a language to define mindmaps.
  • DSL Engineering - Contains a detailed discussion of the concepts behind MPS in its Part III on language implementation.
  • Fast track tutorial
  • Heavy Meta a stream series about MPS on Twitch - Live every Tueday and Thursday and recording archive
  • MPS Intro Course by @markusvoelter - A slightly advanced introduction to MPS
  • Towards Maintainable Generators - Best practices for maintainable generators and a set of rules when to apply them.
  • The MPS Language Workbench
  • MPS User Guide

Community

• Twitter
  • JetBrains MPS
• Slack
  • JetBrains MPS slack channel
• Websites
  • languageengineering.io - A blog focused in language engineering with many examples implemented using MPS.
  • Official Website
  • Programming Basics - Uses MPS to teach the basics of programming to none computer science people.

Research

• Papers
  • Using Language Workbenches and Domain-Specific Languages for Safety-critical Software Development
  • The Design, Evolution and Use of KernelF Slides
  • Domain-Specific Languages for Efficient Satellite Control Software Development
  • Using C Language Extensions for Developing Embedded Software - A Case Study
  • Automated Testing of DSLs Implementations: Experiences from Building mbeddr
  • Lessons Learned from Developing mbeddr - A Case Study in Language Engineering with MPS
  • Efficient Development of Consistent Projectional Editors using Grammar Cells
  • IncA: A DSL for the Definition of Incremental Program Analyses
  • An Extensible Framework for Variable-Precision Data-Flow Analyses in MPS
  • Towards Usable Projectional Editors
  • Taming the Software Development Complexity with Domain Specific Languages

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.