BinaryGen is a tool for JetBrains MPS to generate binary files as well as text files from your nodes.
This project defines a new aspect for your languages: binaryGen. It's like textGen, except this produces binary files instead of text files.
A binary generator consists of a series of fields, which may be numbers, strings, raw sets of bytes, etc Each field allows you to specify its value via a function in the base language. There are facilities for repitional and conditional field generation. You can also define reusable components for generating binary files.
Once you define binary generators for your concepts, the solutions that make use of your language have to use the BinaryGen.make language.
Sadly, there's no way I know of to make the binary-generation process configurationless, like how textgen is.
- integers of various widths, endianess, and signededness
- strings, byte arrays, etc.
- repitional and conditional constructs
- reusable binary-generation components
- a more pleasent editing experience
- previewing generated files
- switch-case construct
- if-else construct
- bit-field support
Some bugs in MPS that effect BinaryGen: