Generating Visual Studio Code Extensions for Xtext DSLs

G E N E R A T I N G V I S U A L S T U D I O C O D E E X T E N S I O N S F O R X T E X T D S L S

Eclipse Modeling Symposium 2016

Holger Schill & Karsten Thoms

XTEXT DSL IN VSCODE

XTEXT VSCODE EXTENSION• VS Code Extension with DSL Fat Jar

• Xtext Language Server started as JVM child process

• VSC Extension project files generated by Xtext Generator Fragment

• https://github.com/itemis/xtext-generator-vscode

• About to be contributed to xtext-core generator

WORKFLOW CONFIG

GENERATED ARTIFACTS

Uber-Jar- DSL Runtime + IDE- Xtext Dependencies- ~14 MB

GENERATED ARTIFACTS

Engineering