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What are the characteristics, differences and similarities of all these Eclipse-based technologies starting with X (Xtext, Xtend)? Are there any more to learn about?
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Xtext is a textual modelling framework for development of programming languages and domain specific languages. Xtend is a JVM language that "extends" Java, being fully interoperable with it while having a much nicer syntax. It is to Java like CoffeeScript is to JavaScript.
Xtend is a statically-typed programming language which translates to comprehensible Java source code. Syntactically and semantically Xtend has its roots in the Java programming language but improves on many aspects: Extension methods - enhance closed types with new functionality.
Xtend is a flexible and expressive dialect of Java, which compiles into readable Java 8 compatible source code. You can use any existing Java library seamlessly.
Xtext is a framework for development of programming languages and domain-specific languages. With Xtext you define your language using a powerful grammar language.
Xcore is a convenient textual syntax for Ecore metamodels.
(Xpand is a language specialized on code generation based on EMF models, now deprecated in favor of Xtend.)
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