❯ Guillaume Laforge

On board JetBrains!

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JetBrains, JetBrains… You all know I love that company, and I love their products. Especially IntelliJ that I’ve using for a few years already as my main and primary Java IDE. That really, really rocks. And you’ve probably seen the picture of me wearing my JetBrains TShirt…

So what’s the news today? JetBrains’s just released their OnBoard monthly online magazine. That’s worth a read! The featured articles are:

  • Language Oriented Programming: The Next Programming Paradigm
  • Applying Code Generation Approach in Fabrique
  • IntelliJ IDEA: Structural Search and Replace, What, Why and How-to
  • Extending Omea with New Resource Types

Of particular interest, Sergey Dmitriev’s–long awaited for those in the know–article about Meta-programming: “Language Oriented Programming”. That’s a real paradigm shift!

It’s a pretty interesting vision. I’m really keen on small DSL languages for specialized domain models. Moreover, it’s also interesting from the point of view of meta-programming. That rings a bell in my mind, since Groovy supports some meta-programming facilities, like our builders for instance.

On a side note, unrelated to the OnBoard magazine, I’d like to say that JetBrains is very kind with Open Source projects. They’ve just granted Groovy developers a license. A nice gift!