Reflections on the Birth of Spoofax

Kalleberg, Karl Trygve

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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.14
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Karl Trygve Kalleberg

KolibriFX AS, Oslo, Norway

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I would like to thank Lennart Kats for feedback on the various versions of this manuscript.

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Karl Trygve Kalleberg. Reflections on the Birth of Spoofax. In Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 109, pp. 14:1-14:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.EVCS.2023.14

Abstract

The Spoofax Language Workbench is one of the many successful research projects to come out of Eelco’s tremendously productive career, as evidenced by the Most Influential Paper designation awarded at OOPSLA 2020 to the famous 2010 paper by Lennart and Eelco [Lennart C. L. Kats and Eelco Visser, 2010]. In connection with the award, Eelco wrote an excellent retrospective [Eelco Visser, 2021]. Here, I will reflect briefly on the birth of the Spoofax, subject to omissions and inaccuracies, as the topic may be of interest to hardcore fans. Eelco was my PhD co-supervisor, and I was fortunate to be part of his group during the inception of the project.

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Software and its engineering → Domain specific languages
Software and its engineering → Compilers
Software and its engineering → Interpreters

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Spoofax
Language Workbench
Program Transformation

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