Books

This list is admittedly short and possibly incomplete. If you think your book or a book you know, qualifies as an SLE book, please add it by emailing the maintainer of CfPBoK.

• (2008) Model-Driven Software Development: Technology, Engineering, Management by Markus Völter
• (2008) Software Language Engineering: Creating Domain-Specific Languages Using Metamodels by Anneke Kleppe
• (2009) Language Implementation Patterns by Terence Parr
• (2010) DSLs in Action by Debasish Ghosh
• (2012) Patterns, Programming and Everything by Karin K. Breitman, Nigel Horspool
• (2013) DSL Engineering: Designing, Implementing and Using Domain-Specific Languages by Markus Völter, Sebastian Benz, Christian Dietrich, Birgit Engelmann, Mats Helander, Lennart C. L. Kats, Eelco Visser, Guido Wachsmuth
• (2013) Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend (first edition) by Lorenzo Bettini
• (2016) Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend (second edition) by Lorenzo Bettini
• (2017) Engineering Modeling Languages by Benoît Combemale, Robert B. France, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Bernhard Rumpe, Jim Steel, Didier Vojtisek
• (2017) Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice, Second Edition by Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot, Manuel Wimmer
• (2018) Software Languages: Syntax, Semantics, and Metaprogramming by Ralf Lämmel
• (2021) MontiCore Language Workbench and Library Handbook by Bernhard Rumpe
• (2021) Domain-Specific Languages in Practice by Antonio Bucchiarone, Antonio Cicchetti, Federico Ciccozzi, Alfonso Pierantonio
• (2023) Domain-Specific Languages: Effective Modeling, Automation, and Reuse by Andrzej Wąsowski, Thorsten Berger
• (2024) Building User-Friendly DSLs by Meinte Boersma

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