Abstract

Language workbenches are tools that help language designers to design and implement (domain-specific) programming languages, aiming to produce a full featured programming environment from a high-level language description. A recent paper, resulting from a series of language workbench challenge workshops, describes a collection of benchmark problems for language workbench research [5]. In this paper, we describe solutions to two of these benchmark problems in the Spoofax Language Workbench [6], i.e. default formatting in Section 3 and skeleton editing in Section 4. In addition, we introduce a new benchmark problem — bootstrapping of meta-languages in a workbench — and describe the support for bootstrapping we developed for Spoofax in Section 2.