Abstract Language workbenches are tools that provide high-level mechanisms for the
implementation of (domain-specific) languages. Language workbenches are an active area …

The behavior of software that uses the Java Reflection API is fundamentally hard to predict
by analyzing code. Only recent static analysis approaches can resolve reflection under …

This paper presents spoon, a library for the analysis and transformation of Java source code.
spoon enables Java developers to write a large range of domain‐specific analyses and …

Spoofax is a language workbench for efficient, agile development of textual domain-specific
languages with state-of-the-art IDE support. Spoofax integrates language processing …

Abstract Language workbenches are environments for simplifying the creation and use of
computer languages. The annual Language Workbench Challenge (LWC) was launched in …

SrcML is an XML representation for C/C++/Java source code that forms a platform for the
efficient exploration, analysis, and manipulation of large software projects. The lightweight …

Modularization and composition of languages and their IDEs is an important building block
for working efficiently with domain-specific languages. Traditionally this has been a …

In today's software-centric world, ultra-large-scale software repositories, such as
SourceForge, GitHub, and Google Code, are the new library of Alexandria. They contain an …

This paper describes QL, a language for querying complex, potentially recursive data
structures. QL compiles to Datalog and runs on a standard relational database, yet it …

Rascal is a new language for meta-programming and is intended to solve problems in the
domain of source code analysis and transformation. In this article we give a high-level …