Language workbench

A language workbench is a tool or set of tools that enables software development in the language-oriented programming software development paradigm. A language workbench will typically include tools to support the definition, reuse and composition of domain-specific languages together with their integrated development environment. Language workbenches were introduced and popularized by Martin Fowler in 2005.

Language workbenches usually support:

• Specification of the language concepts or metamodel
• Specification of the editing environments for the domain-specific language
• Specification of the execution semantics, e.g. through interpretation and code generation