Stratego/XT Programming Language

Question

Does anyone know something about Stratego/XT Programming Language? What is it good for? Any good and/or bad experiences with it? Any real live running example?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Stratego/XT is a language and toolset for program transformation based on term rewriting with programmable rewriting strategies.

You can find documentation and scientific papers about language and toolset at http://strategoxt.org.

A real life application of Stratego/XT is WebDSL (webdsl.org), a domain-specific language for the development of web applications, which in turn has been used to build researchr.org.

Stratego/XT is also the basis for the Spoofax/IMP toolset for building Eclipse IDE plugins for custom (domain-specific) languages (see Spoofax-IMP page on stratego site).

Answer 2

Try TXL instead. It is easier to start with and does the similar jobs. There are examples on its site.