Is it possible to write comments inside an Xtend template? (for example in order to quickly comment out an IF-statement or anything)

I've found XTend and it really sounds great! But, I can't see any standalone command line compiler for this language. It seems only to run under eclipse. I've done some research, and found some peo...

I have to test my grammar (written with Xtext). I've see it is possible with use of unit test, but I can't find a good tutorial about it. Can you help me?

Xtext 2.9 changed the way scope providers work and I don't understand how they work now. Let's say I have the following grammar: grammar org.xtext.example.mydsl.MyDsl with org.eclipse.xtext.commo...

I can't seem to find a great way to express the following in Xtend without resorting to a while loop: for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++){ println("row "); } println("your boat"); So, I guess my ques...

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?

I need to get to validate existence of specific file in Xtext project. The file has similar path as validated object but other root directory, for example: $projPath/src/dir1/dir2/ValidatedFile....

I use Xtext plugin for eclipse to define my language and generate some files from it. The project is big and I would like to use multiple generators to generate my files, in addition to default gen...

Lets say you have the following code in xTend: class StackOverflowGenerator { def generate()''' «var counter = 0» «FOR i : 0 ..<10» Line Numnber: «i» «counter = counter + 1» «ENDFOR» ''' ...

I have a project structure that looks like this: Tester \-- src |-- hello.java \-- vocabulary.csv I load the csv file using getResource: url = this.getClass().getResource("vocabulary.csv")...

How can I declare an array of int in xtend? I've tried ArrayList but I get the error "The primitive 'int' cannot be a type argument".

Given some iterable variable v and a type T I often find myself writing code such as v.filter[it instanceof T].map[it as T] Does there exist some helper which does the same functionality in a s...

I am learning xtend. What would be a nice way to create a comma separated list in xtend? (something like the SEPARATOR in xpand) I want to produce a comma separated list of parameters in my genera...

I'd like to write Java classes in the Xtend language (simply because its way more terse), and have it compile back down into Java classes of which I can use in my Java project. Just like coffeescri...

I am building a code generator in XTend where I already have an input model and meta model. That is, I use ATL to generate the input model for my XTend code generator (as part of a transformation s...

I'm trying out Xtend. Is it possible to make constructors? It seems so simple, but I'm getting an error when I try something like this: class Scope extends Rect { public Scope(){ super() } } ...

What are the disadvantages/drawbacks of using Xtend?