Sven Efftinge works as consultant, coach and developer. He leads the open-source lab of itemis in Kiel which focuses on domain-specific modeling, generator development and Eclipse technologies. He is project lead of the Xtext framework at eclipse.org and the original architect of the Xpand language family (a.k.a. openArchitectureWare 4). Sven is also a speaker at software conferences, co-author of a book and writes articles for magazines.

LOCATION: Zürich
KEYWORDS: Technology, Product, Lessons learned, Tools

SPEAKER: Sven Efftinge   COMPANY: itemis Schweiz GmbH

With Xtext you can easily create your own programming languages and domain-specific languages (DSLs). The framework supports the development of language infrastructures including compilers and interpreters as well as full blown Eclipse-based IDE integration. While Xtext equips you with a set of sensible defaults, you can tweak every single aspect of your language with Xtext's powerful APIs. A comprehensive documentation as well as the vivid community will help you getting started in no time.

Talk: German, Slides: English

Sven Efftinge works as consultant, coach and developer. He leads the open-source lab of itemis in Kiel which focuses on domain-specific modeling, generator development and Eclipse technologies. He is project lead of the Xtext framework at eclipse.org and the original architect of the Xpand language family (a.k.a. openArchitectureWare 4). Sven is also a speaker at software conferences, co-author of a book and writes articles for magazines.

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