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

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

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

And here we go with the second candidate for our 2.0 release. Edges have been smoothened and bugs have been eliminated. Please give it a try and tell us how it works for you.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

The last milestone on our adventurous path towards MPS 2.0 has been passed just a few moments ago. We’re now heading towards the final release in just about a few weeks from now.

The list of additions in M6 is pretty promising:

• Migration script to translate your projects to 2.0
• Reorganized and customizable editor tabs
• The Structre tool and navigation to work with language aspects in a more logical way
• Quick creation of new default editor by a quick-fix
• Table editors with row and column selection modes

Now is the best time to read the full description of what’s new and certainly grab M6 from the EAP download page.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

The MPS Milestone 5 is now waiting for you to grab it and enjoy. This time, there are exactly three changes visible from the outside (plus a lot changes and improvements under the hood, of course):

1. TypeSystem trace improvements
2. The ability to run MPS, with your language enhancements applied, directly from MPS
3. A Power Save Mode to speed-up MPS when dealing with large projects

Read the full description of the new functionality and get the M5 release from the EAP download page.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

Here’s a bit of good news to kick the week off - the JetBrains MPS team is going to the Code Generation 2011 conference, held in Cambridge, UK, on 25th - 27th May. Alex Shatalin together with Markus Völter will be giving a hands-on MPS workshop on May 27th to help you get started with MPS. You’ll get a chance to put your hands on MPS and see whether and how it solves your current needs.
Come to the session or talk to us directly any time. We’re looking forward to seeing you all there.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

The good news to all MPS enthusiasts out there - MPS Milestone 3 is available. A full-blown colorful description of what’s new is available for you to check out, but here’s a brief summary, if you can’t wait:

• Tabular editors
• New organization of editor tabs
• Reorganized Make/Generate actions
• Intuitive structured view for generated text (I personally love this one)
• New Breakpoints and Watches in Java Debugger
• Trace information generation through textGen
• Plugin framework improvements

I guess this is quite some stuff for all of us to try and enjoy. We’ll be happy to hear back from you your feedback, comments or suggestions.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

2010 was a huge success for JetBrains but it is already clear 2011 is going to be another year to remember.
On the 17th of January, as part of our growth, we opened a new office in Munich, Germany.

Why Germany?

The beer of course! Now, although the beer had a great role in the decision, one of the main reasons was that we want to be closer to our European community. Europe makes up a big part of our customer base with Germany being the biggest one in Europe, and Munich is quite the center of EU. Being here full-time we’ll be able to participate more in local events and organize our own too.
View from our 6th floor office window.

Come and Celebrate it with us at the JetBrains Open House

We are eager to get under way, so let there be no delay. We want to celebrate the opening of our new office and invite you to join us at a small “open house” gathering. We’ll tell you more about us, how we work, why we care so much about our work.

You’ll meet the teams behind the tools you use daily. We’ll share some news, probably T-shirts, and we’ll have some drinks and food of course.
Tele-conference with RubyMine team in St.Petersburg.

The “open house” will take place on Friday, 18th of February, 16:30 - 20:30.

A large section of our office is still being made up, so our capacity is a bit limited at the moment. Therefore, we kindly ask you to RSVP and also tell us what JetBrains products excite you most, except MPS of course.


JetBrains GmbH team
“Develop with pleasure!”