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Modular and distributed IDE

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Fabien Coulon,

Alex Auvolat,

Benoit Combemale,

Yérom-David Bromberg,

François Taïani,

Olivier Barais,

Noël PlouzeauAuthors Info & Claims

SLE 2020: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering

Pages 270 - 282

https://doi.org/10.1145/3426425.3426947

Published: 15 November 2020 Publication History

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Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are indispensable companions to programming languages. They are increasingly turning towards Web-based infrastructure. The rise of a protocol such as the Language Server Protocol (LSP) that standardizes the separation between a language-agnostic IDE, and a language server that provides all language services (e.g., auto completion, compiler...) has allowed the emergence of high quality generic Web components to build the IDE part that runs in the browser. However, all language services require different computing capacities and response times to guarantee a user-friendly experience within the IDE. The monolithic distribution of all language services prevents to leverage on the available execution platforms (e.g., local platform, application server, cloud). In contrast with the current approaches that provide IDEs in the form of a monolithic client-server architecture, we explore in this paper the modularization of all language services to support their individual deployment and dynamic adaptation within an IDE. We evaluate the performance impact of the distribution of the language services across the available execution platforms on four EMF-based languages, and demonstrate the benefit of a custom distribution.

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This is a presentation video of my talk at SLE 2020 on our paper accepted in the research track. In this paper, we explore the modularization of all language services to support their individual deployment and dynamic adaptation within an IDE. We evaluate the performance impact of the distribution of the language services across the available execution platforms on four EMF-based languages, and demonstrate the benefit of a custom distribution.

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1. Software and its engineering
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SLE 2020: Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering

November 2020

295 pages

ISBN:9781450381765

DOI:10.1145/3426425

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Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

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Jeanjean PCombemale BBarais O(2021)IDE as Code: Reifying Language Protocols as First-Class CitizensProceedings of the 14th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (formerly known as India Software Engineering Conference)10.1145/3452383.3452406(1-5)Online publication date: 25-Feb-2021
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Belafia RJeanjean PBarais OGuernic GCombemale B(2021)From Monolithic to Microservice Architecture: The Case of Extensible and Domain-Specific IDEs2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C)10.1109/MODELS-C53483.2021.00070(454-463)Online publication date: Oct-2021
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