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by laurentlb 2031 days ago
What do you mean with "insistence on being a separate language"? Many build tools have their own DSL.
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Starlark is _almost_, but not quite_ Python, and Python 2 at that. You could do everything Starlark does in actual Python and get stuff like static type checking for free.

I think the term DSL is overloaded here? Consider all the Lisp and Ruby stuff that's definitely DSL but doesn't need most of a language implementation.