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DSLs have their place. arguably we have too few of them. we always use a general language. which is good, because it's general, sometimes great at a few things, but usually very awkwardly at most of the things.

Alan Kay (and his teammates during the STEPS project at VPRI) spent years and years thinking/experimenting with this, here's the final report from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11686325

"The big breakthrough is making it easy to create new DSLs for any situation."