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

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

That was fast. It feels like yesterday when Milestone 3 with its fancy tabular editors, reorganized text generation and several other cool features was announced and yet today we get Milestone 4 sitting on the shelf ready for a test ride. Go and grab it while it’s hot. On top numerous bug-fixes, the release brings major internal refactorings and several useful new features.

• Better stub organization
• First shot of a contextual help
• Completely new dialog to do merges safely and intuitively
• Named tuples can now implement interfaces
• Updated to the recent IntelliJ platform

For all the relevant details, please check out the What’s new page.

Develop with pleasure!
-JetBrains MPS Team