JetBrains MPS Blog

Are you coming to Code Generation 2013? The JetBrains MPS and YouTrack teams are sending a four member crew this year. We’ll present MPS 3.0, teach the basics of projectional editing and practice language extension during the MPS hands-on session on Wednesday April 10th. On Thursday 11th during the Have Your Language Built While You Wait session, we’ll be available to help you start prototyping your own language. You’ll also be able to grab us for a chat any time at the JetBrains booth down in the lobby and discuss whatever comes to mind related to DSLs, MPS and life. See you there!

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

The two presentations given by Alexander Shatalin and Václav Pech at CodeGeneration2012 have just been published by InfoQ. You can check them out:

• Developing Advanced IDE Functionality for Your DSLs - MPS principles explained
• Building Your Own Java (Part 1 and Part 2) - a hands-on lab to dip your toes into MPS

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

Nothing beats live presentations and hands-on tutorials when it comes to sharing knowledge, experience and excitement.

If you plan to attend W-JAX in Munich or TOPCONF in Tallinn this year, you might have noticed the conferences have MPS listed in their agendas.
Markus Voelter will give a whole day tutorial at W-JAX called Make this YOUR Java.
Václav Pech will focus on the key benefits of MPS for Java developers during his TOPCONF talk called Are you speaking my language?.
You are more than welcome to come and join us there.

Not going to these conferences? We may still have good news for you. There are more MPS events in the pipe. Check out the MPS Event Calendar for a more thorought list of MPS-related events.

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

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!”

If you are planning to be at one of the most important European events - Devoxx - in November 2010 (15th through 19th), you might be interested in visiting our hands-on lab where we will be presenting Language-Oriented Programming in Action.

Those of you who are eager to try MPS for yourself and experience the power of the LOP-approach to software development, are kindly welcome to join the lab on the 15th of November, in the frames of the first University day.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team

This week we are starting something we are very excited about.

Konstantin Solomatov, the lead developer of JetBrains MPS, will be giving MPS presentations in a new format (at least for us) — the webinars. The first online MPS seminar will take place this Friday, April 17, at 3pm (GMT+3). The duration is 1 hour.

If you want to attend the webinar, to listen about MPS, ask questions and get them answered promptly, please send us the request at Konstantin.Solomatov@jetbrains.com.

The number of attendees is limited now, so hurry up to join. We are planning to gather the momentum and have more and more webinars, and for other our products too.

See you at the webinar!

Posted by Eugene Toporov, Marketing Manager

Konstanting Solomatov, the lead MPS developer, is at QCon this week. He is showing the latest MPS Beta2 there.

If you are nearby, come to talk, ask questions and share your thoughts.

Posted by Eugene Toporov, Marketing Manager

On Feb 12-13, I was taking part in DSL Workshop by SAP in Walldorf, Germany. Walldorf is a small town 150km away from Frankfurt am Main, with population of about 15000, mostly SAP employees. I spoke on MPS there.

On the first day, presentations on different DSL technologies were scheduled, my speech on MPS among them. I had initially planned to speak for about 20 minutes but it has taken about an hour. People were asking a lot of questions about MPS, especially about our editor. They were surprised when they saw how similar our editor is to conventional text editors even though we edit syntax tree directly. The ability to create and extend languages which is a unique feature of MPS has also drawn a lot of attention. Overall, I believe it was a really successful appearance

Of course, there were lots of other presentations, most notably those on Stratego/XT, WebDSL, SAP DSL Infrastructure, XText, Mod4j (which isn’t available yet) and other interesting stuff. Stratego/XT is a platform for text-based languages developed by Eelco Visser, among others. WebDSL is a set of DSLs for web application development. SAP DSL infrastructure is developed by SAP in order to create DSLs for use in their own products. XText is another product that supports development of text-based languages. In addition to language definition, it provides an Eclipse-based editor and integrates with Eclipse-based modeling framework. Mod4j is a set of tools that simplify JEE development using DSLs. On the second day, we discussed architectural options and tradeoffs that should be decided upon when designing a new DSL infrastructure.

I would definitely like to thank SAP AG for arranging this excellent workshop and making it possible for me to make an appearance. Special thanks go to individual participants of the workshop: Axel Uhl (SAP), Bernd Kold (SAP), Thomas Goldschmidt (SAP), Markus Voelter (Itemis), Lennart Kats (TU Delft), Eelco Visser (TU Delft), and Jos Warmer (Ordina).

You can take a look at pictures that I’ve taken during this workshop.

Posted by Konstantin Solomatov, Lead MPS developer