Thanks for the opportunity to join this community. My name is Christian and I started with modeling back in 2006 when I joined itemis and MDA was still a thing. Back then much of modeling was done based on UML / graphically. I was a user of the openArchitectureWare and later moved to Xpand and Xtext at Eclipse.
Since 2015 i am committer for Eclipse Xtext and right now i am the main contributor Eclipse Xtext and also Project Lead. I also do Consulting on Xtext in smaller and big scale projects.
I see this community as a great chance to get in contact with people in other modeling sections like MPS and others.
We are still alive. We also have fancy stuff like Language Server Protocol Support.
But we have much fewer resources than in better days https://github.com/eclipse/xtext/issues/1721
Sad to hear about this state of things of Xtext. Personally I have not used it for years but it has been crucial for me to get involved in language engineering and when I talk with other practitioners many tell me the same thing. I never contributed to Eclipse projects but my understanding is that there is a certain complexity involved so I guess it is very hard to get occasional contributors involved in the project
Yes. Contributions in Eclipse is not easy and in Xtext it is extra hard as before my time people thought it was a good idea to split up the code on 8 repositories