Preface to the second edition
Since the very beginning, Xtext has always been a continuously evolving software. Each new version of Xtext comes with many new features and bugfixes.
When I wrote the first edition of the book, which was published in August 2013, Xtext 2.4.0 had been recently released. Since then, all the features introduced in each new release of Xtext aimed at making DSL implementation easier and at improving the user experience.
All these things came with a small price though—the contents of the book were getting stale in time, and they did not respect the features of Xtext in the new releases anymore.
In all these years, Xtext has always been my daily framework since my research is based on programming language design, theory, and ...
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