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by williamcotton 1302 days ago
> what would be the impetus?

That there are many issues with general purpose programming languages such as those outlined by the author in the article?

> I suspect this is the fate of any little language that successfully eliminates the need for engineers: if we can take a piece of a domain and describe it in a DSL that is streamlined enough for no-effort onboarding, it won't take very long for the DSL to be made redundant by GUI tools that are even easier to use.

That seems ideal! Domain-specific languages have always benefited from GUI tooling alongside anything that is less clunky as textual representation.