It is already some years that I am thinking about possible evolution of programming that give away text as a form to store the programs or at least try to put more and more distance between the way the code is stored and the way the code is edited and explored. That extra mile can […]

We got recently a paper accepted at the workshop on modeling in software engineering. The paper was written with Antonio Vetrò, Marco Torchiano, Markus Völter and Bernd Kolb. Applications nowadays are written using more than one language: typically some sort of general purpose language and a constellation of complementary languages (SQL, HTML, XML, Scripting languages, DSLs). Between artefacts […]

Nowadays each project is realised using a plethora of languages. Think about some classical scenarios: A web application: Css, Javascript, Html and a general purpose language for server side elaborations (for example Java) A Java framework using XML for configuration SQL snippets embedded in a general purpose language In this scenarios different languages have to interact. The problem is […]

The first to consider this hypothesis were Sapir and Whorf, with their work on linguist relativity. They started examine different languages of the natives of America and look into the differences between them. For example, they found out that some languages did not have an explicit notion of time: there were no future tenses or words to […]

Currently I am in Munich, working at Fortiss, an institute of the Technische Universität München. I am here to work on mbeddr, which is a super-cool project. mbeddr supports embedded software development based on an extensible version of C language and IDE. Existing extensions include interfaces with pre- and postconditions, components, state machines and physical units, […]

A few days ago I recorded a short screencast to show how it is possible to visualize a file inside Jetbrains MPS.