JetBrains MPS Blog

Another round of polishing and fine-tuning has brought us the MPS 2.0.3 release, so we can start the new year with a sharp and shiny tool. Your copy of MPS 2.0.3 is waiting for you at the usual download place just like the release notes containing the details.

One important note to add - we’ve prepared a whole set of new educational screen-casts on MPS and language design, both introductory and expert level. They’ve been published through the MPS channel of JetBrains TV. Check them out!

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

If you are coming to Devoxx this year, we have some good news for you - two members of the MPS and YouTrack teams, Maxim Mazin and Václav Pech, will be there to answer your questions. Come and join us at the JetBrains booth or, even better, attend the “Are you talking my language?” session on Thursday 17th November and hear an introduction into MPS first hand.

See you there!

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

Markus Voelter and Vaclav Pech sat down together and recorder an introductory MPS screen-cast series featuring some of the fundamental principles of language extensions in MPS. To learn the basics of MPS tune JetBrains TV, make yourself comfortable and have a look.

There are currently four videos available for you to download. A few more demos are coming soon, so stay tuned.

1. Creating a new statement
2. Creating tabular expressions
3. Creating new types and literals
4. Language Extensions - Describing the dataflow

Please, don’t forget to leave a comment to let us know how you enjoyed the demos and/or what topics you’d like to see covered in our future screencasts.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

Four weeks have passed and we’re bringing another round of fixes to make your experience beter and smoother. You can get your copy of MPS 2.0.2 at the usual download site. Plus, the release notes will tell you the details on what’s in for you.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

Realaxy have been building an awesome IDE for ActionScript, which now noisily goes public! Their new Realaxy Editor is fully based on MPS and so you may expect helpful and intuitive coding assistance and lots of clever time-saving tricks.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

The JetBrains TV site now hosts two new introductory screen-casts loaded with practical tips and tricks that aim to help people start using MPS effectively. While the first demo describes how to work with the MPS editor, the second one illustrates ways to run your solutions either from within MPS or integrated into a Java solution. If you are an MPS freshman and want to get useful tips, check them out.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

Not even a month has passed since 2.0 came out and we’ve managed to prepare a solid bug-fix release. MPS 2.0.1 is now packaged and ready for you to grab.

If you are curious about all the fixes and improvements, check out the release notes.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

This is a big day for all the MPS users, developers and fans. Version 2.0 has just been released bringing tons of new features and improvements. You might have heard about some of these, if you followed our progress as MPS marched through the several milestones on its way to maturity. Just to briefly recap the major highlights of MPS 2.0:

• Support for creating standalone customized language IDEs
• Type-system improvements plus the ability to trace type calculations
• Scripting and customization of the build process
• Redesigned UI for merging different versions safely and intuitively
• Intelligent paste code from Java
• The Dataflow Analyzers language
• New organization of editor tabs
• Tabular editors
• Reorganized Make/Generate actions
• Performance and memory optimization

For more detailed description of these and other new features, please refer to the What’s new page. If you downloaded the RC-5 release last week, you are all set, since there were no changes made after RC-5. Otherwise, this is definitely a good time to download MPS 2.0 and do some serious business with it.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

MPS 2.0 will be released next monday. Here you can download MPS 2.0 RC5, most probably the future 2.0 release build.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

Based upon your feedback we have decided to address a few additional issues. Please download MPS2.0, 4th releases candidate and share your experience with us.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team