Hi Andy, Matt,

Interesting: I have been using Xtend for some time, but these newer
developments have passed me by.... It seems that there are two
"flavours" of it now. The one that I have been using is the model
transformation language variant that is maintained by Itemis, and is
part of Xpand (<http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/m2t/?project=xpand>). I
would never have thought of it as a general-purpose programming
language, but that seems to be the thrust of the newer version.

According to the history section at
<http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/#history> the model transformation variant
is now in maintenance mode. Seems like I have some catching up to do :-)

I am always potentially interested in statically-typed languages that
address some of the shortcomings of Java. So many languages though, so
little time....

Regards,
Peter.

On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 18:16 +0200, Andy Gotz wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> from the title do I understand you prefer Xtend to Scala? We are using
> it in another project and yes it has a very nice feel to it. Some of 
> 
> Andy
> 
> On 2012/04/26 12:14 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > xtend is worth a play: http://www.eclipse.org/xtend/ if you are
> > interested in languages, I played around it at eclipse con.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > (It compiles first to Java source which then compiles normally - so
> > one has the Java.)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > 
> 

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