Chapter 14. Conclusions

By the end of this book, you should have a good knowledge of Xtext and Xtend and their mechanisms. You should be able to implement even a complex DSL and all its aspects, both concerning the runtime and the UI. If your DSL needs to inter-operate with Java and its type system, you should really consider adopting Xbase in your DSL, since this will save you from implementing most aspects, including the type system and the code generator.

However, this book could not cover all the details of Xtext, so while developing your DSL you might have to face problems that this book did not even mention.

For this reason, you should always keep the official Xtext documentation at hand. As we said in the book, you find the documentation online at: https://www.eclipse.org/Xtext/documentation/. Remember that the Xtext documentation is also available in your Eclipse, navigating to Help | Help Contents | Xtext Documentation. The same holds for the Xtend programming language...