Accelerating the creation of customized, language-specific IDEs in eclipse

P. Charles; R.M. Fuhrer; S.M. Sutton; E. Duesterwald; J.J. Vinju

doi:10.1145/1640089.1640104

Accelerating the creation of customized, language-specific IDEs in eclipse

P. Charles, R.M. Fuhrer, S.M. Sutton, E. Duesterwald, J.J. Vinju

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Full-featured integrated development environments have become critical to the adoption of new programming languages. Key to the success of these IDEs is the provision of services tailored to the languages. However, modern IDEs are large and complex, and the cost of constructing one from scratch can be prohibitive. Generators that work from language specifications reduce costs but produce environments that do not fully reflect distinctive language characteristics. We believe that there is a practical middle ground between these extremes that can be effectively addressed by an open, semi-automated strategy to IDE development. This strategy is to reduce the burden of IDE development as much as possible, especially for internal IDE details, while opening opportunities for significant customizations to IDE services. To reduce the effort needed for customization we provide a combination of frameworks, templates, and generators. We demonstrate an extensible IDE architecture that embodies this strategy, and we show that this architecture can be used to produce customized IDEs, with a moderate amount of effort, for a variety of interesting languages.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'09), October 25-29, 2009, Orlando, Florida
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	191-206
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-766-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1640089.1640104
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	conference; 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications; 2009-10-25; 2009-10-29 - Duration: 25 Oct 2009 → 29 Oct 2009

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Conference	conference; 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications; 2009-10-25; 2009-10-29
Period	25/10/09 → 29/10/09
Other	24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications

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Charles, P., Fuhrer, R. M., Sutton, S. M., Duesterwald, E., & Vinju, J. J. (2009). Accelerating the creation of customized, language-specific IDEs in eclipse. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'09), October 25-29, 2009, Orlando, Florida (pp. 191-206). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/1640089.1640104

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Charles, P, Fuhrer, RM, Sutton, SM, Duesterwald, E & Vinju, JJ 2009, Accelerating the creation of customized, language-specific IDEs in eclipse. in Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'09), October 25-29, 2009, Orlando, Florida. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, pp. 191-206, conference; 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications; 2009-10-25; 2009-10-29, 25/10/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1640089.1640104

Accelerating the creation of customized, language-specific IDEs in eclipse. / Charles, P.; Fuhrer, R.M.; Sutton, S.M. et al.
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'09), October 25-29, 2009, Orlando, Florida. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2009. p. 191-206.

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Charles P, Fuhrer RM, Sutton SM, Duesterwald E, Vinju JJ. Accelerating the creation of customized, language-specific IDEs in eclipse. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'09), October 25-29, 2009, Orlando, Florida. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2009. p. 191-206 doi: 10.1145/1640089.1640104

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