coolya / mps.rocks

A curated list of awesome MPS extensions/libraries, software and resources.

MPS rocks

A curated list of awesome MPS extensions/libraries, software and resources.

Inspired by awesome-python and awesome-rust.

What are you looking for?

Understand what MPS is

• What is MPS and why to build your own language

See what others have been building with MPS

• Built with MPS are open source projects that all built on MPS
• Research contains a list academic papers that make heavy use of MPS

Get started with MPS

To get stated we suggest to look at the tutorials in the following order:

• MPS for the Impatient is a free hands-on course that covers the basics of JetBrains MPS from the language designer's perspective, skipping the theoretical topics as well as the practical productivity how-tos.
• HeayMeta.tv - A complete MPS tutorial to build your first language by @coolya with lots background information on language design.
• MPS Intro Course by @markusvoelter is an advanced introduction to MPS in the form of multiple videos as well as a github repository to play around with. It also covers extensions to MPS such as additional notations or the interpreter framework.
• If you are specificity looking for input on how to build generators this guide contains a set of best practices.
• The DSL Engineering Book contains detailed discussions of the concepts behind MPS in its Part III on language implementation.
• For more details on specific MPS topics we refer to The MPS Language Workbench Book (Volume I, Volume II) as well as the official MPS User Guide

Learning contains a list of even more tutorials. In addition Research contains a list academic papers that make heavy use of MPS.

Get in touch with the community

• The Community list the usual suspects

Awesome MPS

Plugins

Plugins that improve MPS.

• Build Script Notifier - Fix your build scripts with one click when module dependencies change.
• digitalember.extensions - MPS baseLanguage editor extensions for better readability.
• Durchblick - Simplified editors to increase readability of generators.
• Editor2PDF - Serialises editor into PDF files
• Fernsprecher - View your IntelliJ based IDE logs directly in your browser.
• Grammar Cells - An extension to the editor language of MPS. It will help you to create consistent and well-behaving textual notations in MPS with no effort.
• ingrid - Ingrid is a plugin for JetBrains MPS allowing import of ANTLRv4 grammars and create an MPS language out of it.
• Key Promoter X - This plugin helps to learn essential shortcuts while you are working.
• langdoc - This plugin allows arbitrary nodes in your models to be annotated with documentation text.
• Language visualizer - A JetBrains MPS plugin to visualize the structure of a language.
• Mario Progress Bar - Pretty progress bars for IJ based IDEs.
• MPS BaseLanguage Extensions - A set of handy extensions to BaseLanguage, such as tail recursion optimization and function memoization
• mps-code-reviewer - Code Review for JetBrains MPS providing integration with Bitbucket
• MPS Extensions - Various extensions to simplify language development.
• MPS gradle plugin - A Gradle plugin to build & test langauges and to support various tasks related to custom RCP packaging.
• MPS-QA - This repository contains quality assurance tooling for Jetbrains' MPS.
• Nyan Progress Bar - Pretty progress bars for IJ based IDEs.
• Presentation Assistant - This plugin shows name and Win/Mac shortcuts of any action you invoke.
• Shadow Models - Shadow Models is an incremental transformation framework for MPS.
• Stubs Generator - Stubs Generator is a plugin to Jetbrains MPS which allows easy creation of generators of library stubs for custom MPS languages.
• skadi gist - Share MPS code snippets via the browser.
• Text Generator Plugin - Alternative Textgen for JetBrains MPS using the standard model to model generation mechanisms.

Built with MPS

IDEs

Complete IDEs built with MPS.

• Dutch Tax Office - Domain-specific languages to implement Dutch tax legislation and process changes of that legislation.
• FBME - FBME (Function Blocks Modelling Environment) is an IDE for IEC 61499 standard built on top of JetBrains MPS language workbench.
• Hardella IDE - Smart programming environment for PLC
• mbeddr - An extensible C implementation in MPS to support embedded software development.
• MetaR - A IDE for R for people with limited computer science background.
• PeoPL - A full IDE build upon MPS to manage Software Product Lines.

Languages

Individual languages.

• ANTLR_MPS - An ANTLR language for MPS, and the ToMPS language to help create MPS languages and ANTRL visitors from an ANTLR 4 grammar.
• CsBaseLanguage - An implementation of the C# 5.0 language.
• DclareForMPS - Support for the dclare engine in MPS.
• D-Flat - C# language implementation prototype for JetBrains MPS.
• ecmascript4mps - ECMAScript language implementation for JetBrains MPS.
• FormatsDSL - A DSL to describe formats and generate loaders.
• mbeddr.cpp - C++ language implementation prototype for JetBrains MPS, built as an extension on mbeddr.core (C language).
• MPS JSON Language - A JSON implementation for MPS.
• PlantUML - Language for PlantUML models, also useful to generate PlantUML diagrams from custom DSL.
• iets3 - Base language for system modelling and specification including basics abstractions for components, expression, variability, etc.
• Physics - A physical simulation description language built with MPS.
• Voice Menu - A voice menu language and a Java simulator built using JetBrains MPS.
• Web languages - a collection of Web-centric, partial language implementations: JSON, JSON Schema, WSDL, XSD, SVG, CSS.

Other projects

• Modelix - Modelix is a open source platform that aims to bring modeling on the web.
• MPS CodeRules - New typesystem from JetBrains for MPS. Uses logic programming.
• MPS Platform Docs - This website collects practical knowledge about MPS and popular MPS platforms.
• MPSServer - A tool to make MPS accessible remotely.
• mpsZooKeeper.sh - Helper script to generate an isolated configuration prefix for isolated MPS instances.
• Skadi Cloud - An experiment with Projector to put JetBrains MPS into the browser.
• WebEditKit - This is a framework for creating projectional editors which interact with JetBrains MPS.

Learning MPS

Tutorials / Courses

• Learn MPS - Browse top resources, improve your MPS skills, and connect with the community.
• Creating a simple language using JetBrains MPS - The objective of this project is to construct a language to define mindmaps.
• Fast track tutorial is the official tutorial for MPS. It will provide you with an high-level overview in 10 steps, covering all aspects of MPS at a high level.
• HeayMeta.tv - A complete MPS tutorial to build your first language by @coolya with lots background information on language design.
• MPS for the Impatient is a free hands-on course that covers the basics of JetBrains MPS from the language designer's perspective, skipping the theoretical topics as well as the practical productivity how-tos.
• mps-tips - Collection of tips and tricks about the MPS ecosystem which might be useful to someone.
• MPS tutorials - Official tutorials and cookbooks for MPS.
• MPS Intro Course by @markusvoelter - A slightly advanced introduction to MPS wiht a focus on language extension.
• MPS Office Hours - A weekly one-hour Zoom meeting where you can share your screen and get help.

Books and User Guides

• Deployment options for MPS
• Domain-Specific Languages in Practice with JetBrains MPS - Provides an overview of the domain of language workbenches and examples in both industrial applications and research projects.
• DSL Engineering - Contains a detailed discussion of the concepts behind MPS in its Part III on language implementation.
• The MPS Language Workbench - Introduction to the JetBrains MPS language workbench and a complete reference manual.
• Towards Maintainable Generators - Best practices for maintainable generators and a set of rules when to apply them.
• MPS OpenAPI Documentation
• MPS User Guide

Community

Medium

• JetBrains MPS related stories

Twitter

• JetBrains MPS

Slack

• JetBrains MPS slack channel

Websites

• DSLFoundry - DSLFoundry blog: howtos and articles about practical MPS usage.
• F1RE - A blog focus on the model driven software engineering domain.
• languageengineering.io - A blog focused in language engineering with many examples implemented using MPS.
• log verbose - The repositor owner's own blog posts on MPS.
• Official Website
• Programming Basics - Uses MPS to teach the basics of programming to none computer science people.
• Specific Languages - Specific Languages blog: articles about practical MPS usage.
• Strumenta - Strumenta blog: articles about MPS and language engineering in general.

Research

Papers

• Classification Algorithms Framework (CAF) to Enable Intelligent Systems Using JetBrains MPS Domain-Specific Languages Environment
• JetBrains MPS as Core DSL Technology for Developing Professional Digital Printers
• Using Language Workbenches and Domain-Specific Languages for Safety-critical Software Development
• The Design, Evolution and Use of KernelF Slides
• Domain-Specific Languages for Efficient Satellite Control Software Development
• Using C Language Extensions for Developing Embedded Software - A Case Study
• Automated Testing of DSLs Implementations: Experiences from Building mbeddr
• Lessons Learned from Developing mbeddr - A Case Study in Language Engineering with MPS
• Efficient Development of Consistent Projectional Editors using Grammar Cells
• IncA: A DSL for the Definition of Incremental Program Analyses
• An Extensible Framework for Variable-Precision Data-Flow Analyses in MPS
• Towards Usable Projectional Editors
• Taming the Software Development Complexity with Domain Specific Languages

Talks / Videos

• GeeCON Prague 2017: why modern language workbenches matter - Talk by Vaclav Pech about MPS.
• ieeeComputerSociety episode 126 - Jetbrains MPS with Konstantin Solomatov
• MPS Talk Series 2021 - The MPS Talk Series was a free virtual event organized by JetBrains and itemis that took place in February 2021.
• JetBrains MPS as a Tool for Extending Java
• JetBrains TV MPS Playlist - Official videos by JetBrains on MPS.

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first.

mps.rocks's Issues

How about adding the type of resource?

Motivation

The resources seem to fall into particular categories, round about these:

• Videos
• Text tutorials and blogs
• Text documentation
• Research Papers
• Book recommendations
• Communication (Slack / Twitter)

It would be helpful to assess the links to get a hint on what format it has.

Once we agreed on any of these, I'd volunteer to change that.

Ideas

Idea 1: Category roots

We could have the categories as list roots in the Resource paragraph.

Idea 2: Technical Format in the link text, more categories for

I found a similar list from jetbrains here. They seem to put the technical format in the link text. Their paragraph structure looks useful for identifying the group first that I'm interested in.