New Book Project

Eelco Visser and I have decided to write a book - we'll track the progress at dsl-engineering.org.

The book will cover two main aspects: software engineering with DSLs as well as engineering DSLs, i.e., we talk about how DSLs can be used in software engineering and how to engineer good DSLs. The book will assume modern DSL engineering tools (language workbenches). It will not be a tutorial for any specific tool, but of course we will provide examples and some level of detail for the tools you expect from us (SDF/Spoofax, Xtext, MPS, and to a lesser degree, some others).

Although we have just started the book project, we have already written the Introduction as if the book was already finished to give you an impression what we are planning to do. We have not yet decided how open the writing process will be, but of course there will be some degree of openness and community integration. So please check back with this website if you want to stay informed and possibly get involved.  permalink