Andrey Tarantsov

Andrey Platov

Gives an in-depth introduction to the Dynamic Languages Toolkit Eclipse Technology Project. Targets people interested in creation and usage of tools for dynamically-typed languages.

Dynamic Languages Toolkit is a tool for vendors, researchers, and end-users who rely on dynamic languages. DLTK is comprised of a set of extensible frameworks designed to reduce the complexity of building full featured development environments for dynamic languages such as PHP and Perl. Besides a set of frameworks DLTK provides exemplary Tcl, Ruby, and Python Integrated Development Environments ready to use out of the box.

Dynamic Languages Toolkit team currently focuses on finishing the core language-independent model, improving code editing experience (including completion, indenting, formatting, and content assist), providing navigation (definitions/references search) and launching facilities (including interactive console implementation and full debugging support with common DBGp protocol). The project will release version 1.0 a week after the Europa release.

The talk:

• introduces the reasoning and the ideas behind this project;
• gives a report on its progress and outlines the future plans;
• explains the framework provided and the steps required to add support for a new language;
• gives a summary of our JDT generalization experience, obtained during the implementation of this project;
• demonstrates the exemplary implementations of Ruby and Tcl IDEs.

Andrey Tarantsov is a developer and project manager for xored software, Inc. He specializes in Eclipse-based technologies.

Andrey Platov is a Project Lead for the Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK) project.