I’m actually pretty close to having all of the MetaSharp grammars translated into .g files and Attila is working on the msbuild compiler components. Once we have them both done and merged we will have achieved dogfood status. There are plenty of Grammar and Lang features I want to work on still but the next major feature will be the Language Workbench, or in other words the interactive editor (I want to have some type of grammar REPL for the tclangug presentation I will be giving next month at least).
I just recently learned about the Code Generation Conference and now I am learning that there was also a Language Workbench website and that they sponsored a competition that went along with the conference. The most interesting part of this is the description of what a language workbench should do and how to rate them:
http://www.languageworkbenches.net/LWCTask-1.0.pdf
Which almost reads like a workbench spec! So this is very exciting, I have been thinking about what a MetaSharp workbench should be like and I think that I have a pretty good idea of what the external expectations are now, so this is good.
What’s funny about MetaSharp is that it is designed to solve all of the “Advanced” scenarios but currently doesn’t solve any of the “Basic” scenarios, lol. I’m not sure if that’s a good sign or a bad sign yet…
